On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> Tired of "vi vs. emacs", "Perl vs. Python" and "buffy vs. Willow"?
>
> Well here's someting else to consider. Is it "Unix" or "UNIX"?
>
> I ask because I've used "Unix" throughout the book, but the publishers have changed
>it to "UNIX".
>
> Any opinions?
UNIX .. UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laborotories. UNIX is not an acronym,
but a weak pun on MULTICS, the OS worked on by Thompson and Ritchie
before UNIX ....
so sayeth Kernighan and Pike and they use UNIX throughout the book ..
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Robin Szemeti
The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!
