OT: Brian Kernigan Interview

[Jim Asman]

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At 01:20P Thu Aug 10 2017, Jean-Pierre Radley via Filepro-list wrote:

> 
> Jim Asman averred (on Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 06:30:26AM -0700):
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> | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de2Hsvxaf8M
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> 
> Takes me back several decades, Jim!
> 
> There once was a pretty active Unix users' group (Unigroup of NY) for
> which I was an officer.  We met monthly; in scheduling a guest speaker,
> we took advantage of the closeness of the Bell Labs facilities across
> the Hudson, so I have memories (now a bit faded) of our sessions with
> Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie. Peter Weinberger, Bjorn Stroustrup, or
> Brian Kernighan. Those were the days!
> 

John Esak has the audio book "Dealers of Lightning" about Xerox PARC and
all the things that came out of there. Fascinating stuff.

It is remarkable how small number of people at Bell Labs and Xerox Parc 
30-40 years ago laid the foundation for computing as we know it.

                
laid the foundation for computing as we know it today.


Jim 
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