Happy birthday #KenThompson - 83 years young today!
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Maybe #KenThompson will bequeath it to you in his will?! ;-)
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🎉 Buon Anno a tutti: 1° gennaio 1970, nasce la Unix Epoch, il punto zero del tempo informatico
📌 Link all'articolo : www.redhotcyber.com/post/sto...
#redhotcyber #news #unix #sistemaoperativo #kenThompson #dennisRitchie #premioturing #culturaglobale
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16 anni di Go: un linguaggio di programmazione innovativo e scalabile
📌 Link all'articolo : www.redhotcyber.com/post/16-...
#redhotcyber #news #linguaggiog #goserver #sviluppog #robertgriesemer #robpike #kenthompson #linguaggiosemplice #veloce #versioneg #compatibilita #rilasciog #go1.0
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Image titled “Milestone Monday – November 3rd, 1971.” The background features a dark, starry sky with a stylized yellow sunrise graphic at the bottom. At the top, large yellow text reads: Milestone Monday – November 3rd, 1971 To the right, text reads: “The first edition of UNIX was released on November 3rd, 1971. Developed and compiled on the PDP-7 at Bell Labs to run on the brand new (at the time) PDP-11/20 minicomputer. It was designed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, and it’s hard to overstate the influence and impact it had on all aspects of computing.” At the bottom center, the text vintage.computer appears in gold. On the left is a black-and-white photograph labeled “Ken Thompson (left) and Dennis Ritchie (right).” Both are smiling and facing the camera. Below the photo, small text credits: “http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/U/Unix.html
On this day in 1971, the first edition of UNIX was released. Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, UNIX ran on the PDP-11 and went on to shape nearly every modern operating system. #VintageComputing #UNIX #TechHistory #KenThompson #DennisRitchie
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This was a well-spent 4.5 hours 🙇🏽🤩:
“Oral History Of Ken Thompson” [2025], Computer History Museum (youtu.be/OmVHkL0IWk4).
“A Computing Legend Speaks”, David Brock, CHM (computerhistory.org/blog/a-compu...).
#Unix #BellLabs #C #OralHistory #ComputerHistory #KenThompson
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#KenThompson Recalls Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins
thenewstack.io/ken-thompson...
#Legend #Unix
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Image titled “Wow That’s Fascinating – The History of the grep Command.” The design resembles a retro computer terminal screen, with green monospaced text on a black background framed by a gray border. Text reads: “Created by Ken Thompson, grep searches through text using patterns. Its name? ‘Global Regular Expression Print.’ It became a cornerstone of Unix power tools—small, fast, and devastatingly useful.” At the bottom left, in small green text, is vintage.computer, and at the bottom right is a small green computer chip icon.
Did you know the Unix command grep, created by Ken Thompson, stands for “Global Regular Expression Print”? It became one of the most indispensable Unix tools: small, fast, and incredibly useful. #VintageComputing #Unix #grep #KenThompson #TechHistory
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#BSD: La historia oculta del #Unix olvidado. #BellLabs #KenThompson #Berkeley
youtube.com/watch?v=RJYe...
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"Unix è stato costruito per me.
Non l'ho costruito come sistema operativo per altre persone.
L'ho costruito per giocare e per fare le mie cose" #KenThompson
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"You can't trust #code that you did not totally create yourself."
💻 #ComputerScience pioneer #KenThompson, co-creator of the #UNIX operating system, and #developer of the C programming language, is 82 today. #Coding #Tech
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"Interview With Ken Thompson, May 1999", Computer (www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/arch...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3967...
#ComputerHistory #Unix #BellLabs #C #Plan9 #Limbo #Inferno #Linux #Interview #KenThompson
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At last we see how #KenThompson implemented this famous #backdoor in a #Unix #compiler for #C 😍:
“Running the ‘Reflections on Trusting Trust’ Compiler”, Russ Cox (research.swtch.com/nih).
On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/bsazfc/run...
#Security #Trust
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.@TishJames "Ken Thompson was committed to bringing equity to Brooklyn, and to making our borough safer and fairer for all." #kenthompson
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.@MMViverito "Ken Thompson didn't just uphold the law- he made it more fair for all Brooklynites." #kenthompson
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.@NYGovCuomo "Ken was a dedicated public servant who embodied the highest principles of the law, " #kenthompson
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