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Ken Thompson Receives Kanai Award

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the how-much-is-20-million-yen-anyway dept.

JerseyTom writes "Ken Thompson, co-creator of UNIX gets the first Tsutomu Kanai Award which includes a 20-million yen grant from Hitachi Ltd. " Silly me, I thought Unix was obsolete. Guess I was wrong *grin*.

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  1. I thought Al Gore invented UNIX? by daywalker · · Score: 2

    No, but he did discover some of the software Al-Gore-rithyms used in Unix.

  2. Gasp, Did they say Patents?!?!? by Doug+Merritt · · Score: 2

    The famous one is for the SETUID bit mechanism -- first software patent I ever heard of, way back when. Fortunately Bell Labs assigned this patent to the public domain almost immediately, so it never hurt anyone.

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