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From: jboede@auscso.UUCP (Jon Boede)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: UNIX or Unix?
Message-ID: <2614@auscso.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 18:23:26 GMT
Organization: Austin Unix Users Group, Austin, TX
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Summary: Just what is the official capitalization?

While it may seem fairly trivial, this is a serious question.  I do a good deal
of writing about and (a little) justifying of UNIX and it's surfaced in my
attention that there really doesn't seem to be an official way of capitalizing
it.  Even AT&T is a little schizo about it.

I've taken to UNIX as my UNIX Programmer's Manual (c) 1979 puts it that way and
I take that particular book as to have been written by the people who wrote the
operating system... "they wrote it, so they can call it and capitalize it any
way they like," goes my logic.

The most recent and (in it's own trivial way) disturbing occurance of "Unix"
that I've seen appeared in a Newsweek article on Sun Microsystems.

Granted, this is not a burning question but it would be nice to get it pinned
down once and for all.

Jon

UNIX is a Trademark of Bell Laboratories.  <-- from the v7 manual.
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