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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).

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

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

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@nixCraft Taking care to redact your own name but leaving Ken's email address in... is not ok.
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@pavel @nixCraft his address is known. he posts on the TUHS list.

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@beaufils @nixCraft you can email bwk, he gladly answered to me about the B language.

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@beaufils @nixCraft bwk’s book is on archive.org. It mentions the bit below and the screenshot for where Unics comes from, and Ken filled in the gap on how it morphed to Unix.

“In 1965, they beg an to design a system
called “Multics,” the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service.”

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