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1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected

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414 points henry_flower | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source
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m4r1k ◴[20 Feb 25 07:27 UTC] No.43112034[source]▶
I once saw a talk from Brian Kernighan who made a joke about how in three weeks Ken Thompson wrote a text editor, the B compiler, and the skeleton for managing input/output files, which turned out to be UNIX. The joke was that nowadays we're a bit less efficient :-D
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1. cjs_ac ◴[20 Feb 25 08:25 UTC] No.43112344[source]▶
The interview is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o

One hour long, and Thompson tells a lot of entertaining stories. Kernighan does a good job of just letting Thompson speak.