There was a lot of unhappiness at the Labs. So Ken and Dennis, with Doug's prodding, decided they'd try to write a system that would make them happy. -Peter Salus

 

There was a lot of unhappiness at the Labs. So Ken and Dennis, with Doug's prodding, decided they'd try to write a system that would make them happy.


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This quote is just one of 5 total Peter Salus quotes in our collection. Peter Salus is known for saying 'There was a lot of unhappiness at the Labs. So Ken and Dennis, with Doug's prodding, decided they'd try to write a system that would make them happy.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Here was an actual functioning operating system, and it worked.

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[It was this version of Unix that Ritchie and Thompson presented to about 200 people at the Symposium on Operating System Principles in 1973.] This was one of the first 'wow' papers, ... Almost immediately, people started calling up asking if they could get copies of this new operating system.

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This was one of the first 'wow' papers. Almost immediately, people started calling up asking if they could get copies of this new operating system. -Peter Salus
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There was a lot of unhappiness at the Labs. So Ken and Dennis, with Doug's prodding, decided they'd try to write a system that would make them happy.

Peter Salus
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Neither Dennis nor Ken ever dreamed it would still be in use 30 years later.

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