Re: Re: Re: 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. -- `TTTATCGGTCGTTATATAGATGTTTGCA`	[reply]
Re^5: Death and Return of TIMTOWTDI by jordanh (Chaplain) on Jun 03, 2004 at 20:24 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. Not Adventure, but rather "Space Travel".	[reply]


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