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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.
[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.
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.