2 years ago

As beloved Unix pioneer Brian Kernighan approaches his 80th birthday, he made a special appearance at this year’s Linux Conference Australia. Young Brian Kernighan had received his Ph.D.

Because if a new system could run a C compiler, given that it could compile the Unix operating system.

“And for a period in the 1980s,” Microsoft was the largest distributor of Unix operating systems.

” As he looked back over at 50 years of Unix, Kernighan recalled Bell Labs as “particularly congenial for this kind of thing.”