From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 16 20:41:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5745437B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ixian@idiom.com) Received: (from ixian@localhost) by idiom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA60204; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:41:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: idiom.com: ixian set sender to ixian@idiom.com using -f MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15187.46041.478486.392939@idiom.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:41:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric De Mund To: Chern Lee Cc: Subject: Re: UNIX vs Unix In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.4.1 Reply-To: Eric De Mund X-Humans-Reply-To: Eric De Mund X-URL: X-POM: The Moon is Waning Crescent (19% of Full) Organization: Ixian Systems, Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chern, ] According to O'Reilly's word list: ] Unix (UNIX in many books, esp. older ones) ] UNIX appears about 10 to 1 to Unix in the handbook. At first, I ] resorted to changing all instances of Unix to UNIX to make our ] document more standard, but then realized Unix looks a lot more ] aesthetically pleasing. ] According to O'Reilly, are we a new document or an old book? ] Attached is a patch changing all relevant instances of Unix -> UNIX. ] I'd like it the other way around. ] ] Ideas? As an aside, if you're wishing to say that FreeBSD *is* UNIX/Unix, I believe you need to be aware of and not run afoul of trademarks. IANAL, yet I believe that stating what FreeBSD is derived from rather than what it is is another, less tricky (in the legal domain, at least) matter. Who do Wind River's attorneys say own the trademarks `UNIX' and `Unix'? On to the main point. My short answer is, "I believe `UNIX' rather than `Unix' is correct." My other short answer is, "`UNIX' probably predates `Unix' by only a little bit, months if not weeks, as both were used back in New Jersey in 1969-1970, so you can probably just pick one and stick with it." Here's my longer answer. If correctness is defined as the capitalization originally used at AT&T in 1969-1970, I believe "UNIX" is correct.