Re: All caps for UNIX (for no good reason)

[Rachna Ganguli <rachna -dot- ganguli -at- gmail -dot- com>]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

<snip>
This project was called Unics, short for Uniplexed Information and
Computing System, and could support two simultaneous users. The name
has been attributed to Brian Kernighan, and was a hack on Multics.
Following bad puns of Unics ...., the name was later changed to Unix,
and thus a legacy was born. The name is also a criticism of the overly
general and bloated Multics system - Unix would do one thing, and do
it well.
</snip>

So methinks cause it started off as an abbreviation, the all caps stuck.

Rachna



On 9/19/05, David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> There are many apocryphal stories around. As far as I know, the
> original developers have not said why they did it as they did.
> 
> However, the initial documents were not in small caps but in the real,
> genuine article. That is how the original copyright documents had it
> when they were filed by Bell Labs.
> 
> David

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