23 Aug
2026
23 Aug
'26
9:02 p.m.
On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 2:47 AM Steve Lewis via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
- some verification that UNIX was (sort of) originally
called UNICS (see
footnotes in the PPT notes), never formally written down but "verified" in
the past year
How was this verified? When I tried to find contemporary documentation
I couldn't find any and Ken Thompson said that it went directly from 'Ken's
New System" to Unix without 'unics' when I emailed him in 2020 before my
history of unix talk at FOSDEM. At the time, I could just find third-hand
stories about the "unics" story.
There's no footnotes in the pdf and I can't open the ppt file, so I'm
curious
what you've found.
Warner