"We even knew that it had a joke name, Unix, coined by Brian Kernighan, that was a reference to Multics." https://multicians.org/unix.html https://multicians.o

"We even knew that it had a joke name, Unix, coined by Brian Kernighan, that was a reference to Multics." https://multicians.org/unix.html https://multicians.org/unix.html "Brian Kernighan takes credit for the idea, but adds that 'no one can remember' the origin of the final spelling Unix." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix Also note that Prof. Kernighan has written a historical memoir about Unix: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/ https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/