Peter Salus
Peter Salus
Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author in many fields, and an editor of books and journals. He has conducted research in germanistics, language acquisition, and computer languages. He has a 1963 PhD in Linguistics from New York University...
absurd authors
I think it's absurd that they think the authors should have to come to them to opt out of the database,
actual operating
Here was an actual functioning operating system, and it worked.
dreamed ken neither nor
Neither Dennis nor Ken ever dreamed it would still be in use 30 years later.
decided ken system
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.