[thirst4truth]

I do not know of Ken Thompson. My husband and I got started very early into the tech industry, I know of most of the "founders" not Ken Thompson. We bought our first PC in 1982, my husband was a natural born techie. Dual 5k floppies, 128K memory and a 8 or 9" amber monitor. Once friends and business associates found out we bought a new PC, it was not an IBM, but one of the first clones, everybody wanted one. So we became computer dealers and eventually began building custom high speed pc's all through the late eighties and early nineties.

Our main customers were programmers at Microsoft, no one had a faster machine than ours. We even had it tested at MS labs and they thought it was broken since it finished the routine in 5 minutes compared to others taking more than an hour. That is how we became the go to local computer company for MS top programmers.

[Alas Babylon!]

Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles,[1] is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-invented the Go programming language.

Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, his work on computer chess that included creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle.