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9rxyesterday at 12:44 PM1 replyview on HN

Are you under the impression he was, like, a hands-off project manager or something? His involvement was in writing it. Not singlehandedly, but certainly as part of a team. He unquestionably wrote it. He did not envision it like he did the other projects you mention, but the original credit was only in the writing of.


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amw-zeroyesterday at 4:32 PM

To say "Rob Pike wrote Unix" is completely inaccurate. He joined after v7, in 1980.

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