únics
UNICS, later known as UNIX, is a family of multitasking, multiuser operating systems that originated at Bell Labs in the late 1960s. It was designed as a smaller, portable successor to the Multics project and aimed to support efficient software development through a simple, modular design and a philosophy of small tools used together via pipes.
Origin and naming: The early system was referred to as UNICS—Uniplexed Information and Computing Service—during its
Development and dissemination: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie led the work, beginning on a PDP-7 and later
Impact and lineage: Unix popularized the Unix philosophy—small, composable tools, text streams, and pipelines—along with portable,
Today, Unix and Unix-like systems remain central in servers, workstations, and embedded devices. The term "únics"