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Re: Re: Re: Death and Return of TIMTOWTDI

by fuzzyping (Chaplain)
on Jun 02, 2004 at 02:39 UTC ( [id://359065]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Death and Return of TIMTOWTDI
in thread Death and Return of TIMTOWTDI

What about UNIX, wasn't that a part time thing for Ken Thompson?

No, actually it was built by Ken Thompson out of AT&T's necessity for a multiuser, multiprocessing operating system to be used in-house for its own information processing department.

-fp
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Death and Return of TIMTOWTDI
by TomDLux (Vicar) on Jun 02, 2004 at 02:46 UTC

    I thought it was built by Ken Thompson out of the need for a system on which to play Adventure, and the availability of a system without an OS.

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        I thought it was built by Ken Thompson out of the need for a system on which to play Adventure, and the availability of a system without an OS.
      Not Adventure, but rather "Space Travel".
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