Awesome. A Redditor emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange.

[nixcraft@mastodon.social]

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/

#unix #history #computing

[theartlav@anarres.family]

@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.

[beaufils@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft

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

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/memoir.html

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Dennis Ritchie in "The UNIX-Hater's Handbook" anti-foreword: "Bon appetit!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook

[pavel@social.kernel.org]

@nixCraft Taking care to redact your own name but leaving Ken's email address in... is not ok.