Ken Thompson, creator of the Unix operating

Ken Thompson, creator of the Unix operating system, and Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language. Bell Labs, 1973.

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  1. Are you f’ing serious ? Unix and C originated in Bell labs, too ?

    Between Bell Labs and Xerox, those guys pretty much invented everything we use today !

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  2. Such a massive impact on the modern world and almost anything with a computer in it we use in our daily lives. Two of the greats!

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  3. And because they worked for the Bell Stystem, their only compensation was probably a yearly bonus based on pay. In other words, Bell System profited, not them.

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  4. I used to work for someone who every time I would say something about “piping the information out” would always say “pipes are for plumbing”

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  5. UNIX. Brings back memories of all the different “flavors” of the OS. I used UNICOS and IRIX.

    So much easier to learn than VAX/VMS
    imo.

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