14 Jan
2021
14 Jan
'21
10:59 a.m.
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021, Royce Williams wrote:
Congratulations to Ken Thompson, the newly-minted ACM
Fellow:
https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/thompson_4588371
(It seemed of historical interest, and therefore on-topic. :) )
Congratubloodylations, as we say down-under; it is well-deserved.
Without Unix I'd probably still be supporting RSX-11 and VMS etc; their
foray into Unix (Eunice) was doomed.
An exchange with my then boss:
Me: "Eunice makes VMS look civilised".
He: "You mean it looks like Unix".
Me: "That's what I said".
As you can imagine the conversation went downhill from there :-)
-- Dave