UNIX or Unix?

Jon Boede jboede at auscso.UUCP
Fri Mar 18 04:23:26 AEST 1988


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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