References

UNIX: A History and a Memoir

Brian W. Kernighan (2019)

Kindle Direct Publishing.

Abstract. Kernighan's firsthand account of Bell Labs from 1969 to the early 1990s, covering the people and projects that produced Unix, C, awk, troff, and much else. Personal and unusually precise on dates and attributions. The video is his 2019 VCF East talk on the book.

Video

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