<![CDATA[Awesome. A Redditor emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange.]]>Awesome. A Redditor emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange. Actually got a reply https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/1t826y8/emailed_ken_thompson_about_the_unics_to_unix/

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I will have to check bwk's book about that story (I don't remember having read it there).

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Unix: A History and a Memoir

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/beaufils/statuses/116544631356999662https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/beaufils/statuses/116544631356999662Sat, 09 May 2026 12:32:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Awesome. A Redditor emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange. on Sat, 09 May 2026 11:58:10 GMT]]>@nixCraft It is a bit bonkers that our industry is so young that the founding folk are still alive and out there, able to answer these kinds of questions.

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