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Brian Kernighan (Coined Word “Unix”) Interviews Ken Thompson (Co-Invented Unix)
- alister 7y agoThe interview starts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o&t=450s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o&t=450s Brian Kernighan coined the word “Unix” and is the “K” in K&R (co-author of the The C Programming Language book). Ken Thompson co-invented Unix. Full of funny anecdotes like needing 3 weeks to write the kernel and serendipitously his wife was going on vacation for 3 weeks.