Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) | Date | 4 May 1999 17:05:06 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.GSO.4.10.9905040930410.10216-100000@eos30>, <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> wrote: >On Tue, 4 May 1999, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >> Ken Thompson is interviewed in this month's _IEEE Computer_ magazine >> on UNIX and developments. At one point during the interview, Computer >> asks him what he thinks of Linux. Here's his response (any typos are >> mine, and I show italics via <em> and </em>): > >Oh haha... I can't believe this guy. Hahaha what a joke this guy is.
This is Ken Thompson.
Perhaps you're slightly familiar with the name; we was one of the two people who wrote a Linux-like operating system called Unix 28 or so years ago.
____ david parsons \bi/ Hopefully he's referring to userland when he talks \/ about `worse'
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