What & How & Why

Participants: Bell Lab, MIT,GE
Base technique for this project: Compatible Time-Sharing System, CTSS: allow less than 30 terminals to operate server at the same time.
Project Goal: Create an operation system that allow at least 300 terminals work at the same time.
Websites: http://www.multicians.org/

Creator: Ken Thompson
Programming Language used: Assembler
Important aspects for Unics:

1. the use of plain text for storing data
   
2. treating devices and certain types of inter-process communication (IPC) as files
   
3. all applications and devices have only one target: do things well.

Creator: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
Programming Language used: B, C;
B: developed by Ken Thompson, mainly on the BCPL language Thompson used in the Multics project.