C/C++

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Sat Nov 15 15:28:15 PST 2003


Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> underway at comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) writes:
> > You'll find plenty of people that want to break UNIX traditions while
> > you're studying there in the Paul Allen Center, the large new CS
> > building mostly funded by him and the Gates and MSFT.  You'll probably
> > even see many of them write "Unix" instead of the traditional "UNIX".
> 
> "Unix" is the correct spelling.  "UNIX" is a misunderstanding caused
> by the use of small caps in the title of an early paper on Unix.

Actually, it's "UNIX", if you are referring to the image trademark,
and [Uu][Nn][Ii][Xx] if you are referring to the wordmark (wordmarks
are case insensitive).

-- Terry


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