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Subject: Re: Which Ken Thompson?

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 23:50:23 01/17/02

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On January 17, 2002 at 00:30:51, Slater Wold wrote:

>On January 16, 2002 at 23:15:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 16, 2002 at 21:46:21, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>Is the Ken Thompson that created the endgame tablebases the same Ken Thompson
>>>that wrote the Unix operating system?
>>>
>>>Russell
>>
>>
>>Yes he is...
>
>Pretty talented guy.  :)
>
>Hence the hook up to make the best chess computer of his time.

Strikes me as funny that most people here know him for playing games and not
from something unimportant as writing unix.

Tony



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