The Unix System; the beginning : oral history, 1989.

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The Unix System; the beginning : oral history, 1989.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122448530

"The Unix system reflects the ethos of a community of researchers who combined different backgrounds and interests into an unusually coherent programming environment, and it is of interest to know just how that came about." Interviewees include Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Rudd Canaday, Doug McIlroy, Brian W. Kernighan, Joe Condon, Robert Morris, and A.G. "Sandy" Fraser.

1 32-minute cassette tape, 1 edited transcript, and 1 press release.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Mahoney, Michael S. (Michael Sean)

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Mahoney is a Princeton University professor of the history of science. This tape is part of a larger oral history of the UNIX system, commissioned by AT & T Bell Laboratories. From the description of The Unix System; the beginning : oral history, 1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122448530 Michael S. Mahoney was born in New York City on June 30, 1939. He graduated from Harvard University in 1960 and began working on his doctorate in history of science at Princeton Uni...

Thompson, Kenneth R.

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Morris, R. J. (Robert John)

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Canaday, Rudd.

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Ritchie, Dennis J.

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AT & T Bell Laboratories

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Excerpts of a series of interviews with prominent figures in the development of the UNIX operating system. From the description of Release.0, / the beginning, 1989. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283834 ...

McIlroy, Doug.

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Fraser, A.G. (Alexander Garden), 1873-1962

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Alexander Garden Fraser, CBE, was born on the 6 October 1873. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, and Trinity College, Oxford. He intended to read for the Bar but in his second year at Oxford changed to History with the intention of becoming a Colonial school teacher. On leaving Oxford Fraser spent a year working as Secretary to the Student Volunteer Missionary Union. In 1900 he was accepted by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) who sent him to Uga...

Kernighan, Brian W.

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Condon, Joey A., 1954-

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