On Tue, 14 Nov at 2017 15:35:08 -0800
Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote:

> [1] The grammarian in me keeps insisting it shouldn't have been 'UNIX',
> not being an acronym.

  AFAIR Dennis Ritchie lamented the spread of the capitalized form UNIX, he
insisted it was never meant to be that way and that at AT&T/Bell Labs they
always wrote Unix.  But, alas! all capital lettering was ubiquitous back
then, at least in several systems/terminals, and the custom stuck.  IIRC
only this year the US Navy gave up the requirement that its communications
must always be trasmitted using all capitals.


Alessandro
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