• # et unics viendrait de multics

    Posté par (site web personnel) . En réponse au lien D'où vient le nom Unix au lieu de Unics. Évalué à 3 (+1/-0).

    et Ken Thompson et Dennis Ritchie, issus des équipes de Multics, en développèrent une version simplifiée : Unix.

    Unix was named (phonetically) by bwk
    i don't think he ever spelled it, but, since it was a play on multics, he thought it was unics. (you can ask him)

    at the time, unix was compiled on the central computer at bell labs (GE-635) that produced a PDP-7 paper tape. usually i just ran the tape and threw it away. when i needed to save a tape, i wrote "unix" on the tape. it stuck after that.