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Ken Thompson and David Richie, Joe Osanna, Bob Morris, Dough McIlroy listed in the first game created UNIX. Ken was motivated by wanting to play games on the Bell Labs PDP.

"As a part of porting the game to the PDP-7, Thompson developed his own operating system, which later formed the core of the Unix operating system. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)

Now the web runs on Linux which is similar but is not UNIX. I think its a good honor by Bell Labs creating a game that we can play.

http://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html "The summer of 69"

Three great things coming out of 1969, UNIX, the Apollo 11 mission walk on the moon and Woodstock festival!



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