---
title: "Computer: Interview with Ken Thompson, May 1999"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/computer-interview-with-ken-thompson-may-1999-nwaucsixw
source_url: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring03/cs333/thompson
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-03-12T14:10:24.489Z
updated: 2024-11-16T02:17:50.705Z
tags: ["distributed-systems", "unix"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Computer: Interview with Ken Thompson, May 1999

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Interview with Ken Thompson discussing his early work on Unix, his role in developing the Unix system and C, and his recent work in distributed computing.

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daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring03/cs333/thompson>

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