Brian Kernighan interviews Unix co-creator Ken Thompson at VCF East 2019. Thompson recounts how he was hired at Bell Labs, writing the Unix kernel in about three weeks, the origins of B and TMG, pipes, and other anecdotes.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN commenters recommend it for Thompson's funny, first-hand Unix history stories, some of which even Kernighan had not heard.

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