VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan

Vintage Computer Federation · 11 recommenders · 10 months

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.

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