Unix Pioneer Ken Thompson Announces He's Switching From Mac To Linux

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By EditorDavidMar 19, 2023, 3:34 am295 pts
The closing keynote at the SCaLE 20x conference was delivered by 80-year-old Ken Thompson (co-creator of Unix, Plan9, UTF8, and the Go programming language). Slashdot reader motang shared Thompson answer to a question at the end about what operating system he uses today: I have, for most of my life — because…

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