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From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: "TeX" (was Re: Capitalization & programming language names)
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.025341.16995@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 21 Jan 91 02:53:41 GMT
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes:
>I thought it was written in the defining document as "TEX", with the
>E (or epsilon) subscripted.
> 
>For some reason, netters have felt that the subscripting was more
>important to indicate than the case of the letters, hence the ASCII
>representation as "TeX".


What about "NeXT", which (on the machine) is written with all the letters
the same size.  In this case people seem to have felt that the shape
of the letters was more important than the size.
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