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Good for Ken!! Who? lol

• mikecsh 10y ago
  This link (pdf) provides the missing context: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
• lossolo 10y ago
  You use things he worked on everyday, one of them is UTF-8. He also designed and implemented UNIX. He was creator of B language, thanks to which we have C language. He also worked on Golang and Plan9.
  • SixSigma 10y ago
    And even wider, almost everything in the modern world was invented at Bell Labs.
    • rubiquity 10y ago
      Or Xerox PARC.
      • SixSigma 10y ago
        Not even close to Bell-Labs.
        • SixSigma 10y ago
          Sorry downvoter but you really have no idea how much more Bell-Labs has done. The Simplex algorithm, the transistor, C and C++, the R programming language, the ccd, the mobile phone... Just some from the top of my head
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        • rubiquity 10y ago
          No need to be dismissive. This isn't a peeing contest. OOP, Ethernet, the mouse, GUIs, and tablets were some of the things invented at Xerox PARC.
          • SixSigma 10y ago
            But I am dismissive. Xerox Parc, as influential as it's been is still merely drops in the ocean compared to the Labs.
  • klibertp 10y ago
    > He was creator of B language, thanks to which we have C language. That's not something I'd brag about... ;)
    • bawana 10y ago
      Didnt he start DEC?
      • jff 10y ago
        That was Ken Olsen
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