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A Bit Of History

In the authors' words, the Unix name originated as "A weak pun on Multics" having originally christen it 'UNICS' (see http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/u/Unix.html). UNICS stood for UNiplexed Information and Computing Service, a pun on the Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) operating system, which Thompson and Ritchie were previously involved with.

  • Unix
    • Ken Thompson
    • Dennis M. Ritchie (later collaboration on the kernel)
  • C
    • Dennis M. Ritchie
  • grep
    • Ken Thompson
  • sed
    • Stream EDitor
    • Lee E. McMahon
    • 1973 or 1974
  • awk
    • Alfred V. Aho
    • Peter J. Weinberger
    • Brian W. Kernighan
  • lex
    • Michael Lesk
More Unix history at http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x09

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