Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan at VCF East 2019
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In the 1960s-1970s, Ken Thompson co-invented the UNIX operating system along with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He also worked on the language B, the operating system Plan 9, and the language Go. He and Ritchie won the Turing Award. He now works at Google. He’ll be interviewed by Brian Kernighan of “K R” fame. • This talk took place May 4, 2019. Videography courtesy of @thegurumeditation (Facebook), @thegurumeditate (Twitter) • Vintage Computer Federation: https://vcfed.org • VCF Discord: / discord • 0:00 Start of Video, Introductions and Updates • 8:13 Start of Fireside Chat • 11:02 How Ken got to Bell Labs • 17:25 Origins of UNIX • 22:40 Three weeks away from an OS • 29:27 The PDP-11 • 32:48 Pipes • 35:42 GREP • 38:40 Languages and Evolution • 46:25 Chess Computers • 1:02:40 End of Chat
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