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 | | Ken has computed chess endgame databases on-and-off for over 20 years, resulting in new insights into the secrets of endgame play, overturning many human pre-conceived ideas (e.g., showing that KBB versus KN is generally not a draw (Thompson, 1986)) and resulting in changes to the 50-move rule in chess. | | | Ken Thompson and Joe Condon shook the computer chess world and the artificial intelligence community with their chess machine BELLE (Condon and Thompson, 1982). | | | Ken Thompson's work on chess and on Unix are his best-known contributions, but all this work was intertwined with other game and recreational activities. |
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http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/ICGA/Journal/contents/content24-2.htm
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| | Ken Thompson: developed UNIX at Bell Labs |
| | In 1972, Thompson rewrote the UNIX kernel in C. This was the move that assured the system's future success, because it made it portable. | | | But it is also due to the fact that it facilitated the huge paradigm shift from highly centralized mainframe computers to smaller, less expensive and decentralized computers that ran standardized operating systems rather than those dictated by their manufacturers. | | | Not only was Space Travel one of the first games for use on any computer and one of the first application programs to run on UNIX, but it also served as a valuable introduction for Thompson to the awkward process of preparing programs for the PDP-7. |
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http://www.bellevuelinux.org/thompson.html
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| | Ken Thompson - FOLDOC Definition |
| | Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR (or was it "Space Travel"?). | | | The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of the B language, the predecessor of C. | | | In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". |
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http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?Ken+Thompson
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| | Bell Labs: Ken Thompson Receives Kanai Award for Impact of UNIX* System |
| | Thompson conceived the UNIX time-sharing operating system that spring and co-developed it, with Ritchie and a now-legendary band of collaborators, over the next few years. | | | His research has been focused on operating systems, programming languages, software for voice and data communications, security, computer games, and digital music distribution. | | | The ideas of openness and generality embodied in the UNIX system enabled the growth of distributed computing and have strongly influenced the development of today's global network of voice and data networks. |
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http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1999/march/25/1.html
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| | [UCLA-LUG] FYI: Ken Thompson: Linux is A Fad |
| | Thompson received > the Computer Society's and Hitachi's inaugural Tsutomu Kanai Award for > distributed computing this year. | | | He is one of the big > brains behind the Plan 9 and Inferno distributed operating systems; creator, > along with Joseph Condon, of Belle, a world champion chess computer; 1998 > U.S. National Medal of Technology winner, along with Dennis Ritchie, for > their role in developing the Unix system and C. And Mr. | | | On Tue, 25 May 1999, Kent Wada wrote: > >From Andover Update for 1999-05-25 > > Ken Thompson: Linux is A Fad > - Rod Amis > > Ken Thompson is no small personage in the IT pantheon. |
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http://www.linux.ucla.edu/pipermail/linux/1999-May/000250.html
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| | Linux Today - Eric S. Raymond -- Ken Thompson clarifies matters |
| | Ken further adds ``i dont see eye-to-eye with microsoft's business practices.'' His original language was rather stronger and more entertaining, but he asked me not to quote that in order to avoid giving Lucent's lawyers heart failure. | | | Ken did finish by saying ``i must say the linux community is a lot nicer than the unix community. | | | http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm, Ken Thompson (the inventor of Unix) said some unkind things about Linux. |
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http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5722.html
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| | Computer: Interview with Ken Thompson, May 1999 |
| | We were interested in learning about Thompson's early work on Unix and his more recent work in distributed computing. | | | Computer recently visited Ken Thompson at Lucent's Bell Labs to learn about Thompson's early work on Unix and his more recent work in distributed computing. | | | Thompson: Saying these ideas haven't been applied before is tough because, if you look closely, everything is reinvented, nothing's new. |
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http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring03/cs333/thompson.html
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| | About Gray Hill Solutions, Inc. - Resume of Ken Thompson |
| | Ken has performed quality assurance and user interface testing for the software, and has authored the program’s User Manual. | | | Ken served on this project as a project planner, responsible for authoring and maintaining the Project Schedule (MS Project). | | | TreePro™ is a database program designed to help agencies track and manage trees and work orders in urban settings. |
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http://www.grayhillsolutions.com/about/kenresume.htm
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| | Unixica.com -- A tribute to the Unix and its people |
| | Ken is the most talented programmer computer industry has ever seen. | | | Dennis's contribution to Unix is as important as Ken's. | | | Practical implementations of hierarchical filesystem, regular expressions, quicksort, and B (the ancestor of C) are among the things he brought to the software industry with Unix. |
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http://www.unixica.com/html/bell.html
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| | Unix history |
| | But in keeping with their need for extreme economy, Richie wrote a "cut-down version of BCPL" with the abbreviated name, B. In 1970, BTL purchased a PDP-11 for a text preparation project: "Only the processor and memory arrived, there was no disc. | | | Ken Thompson (from UC Berkeley, at BTL since 1966) and | | | The first edition of the "UNIX PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL [by] K. Thompson [and] D. Ritchie" is dated "November 3, 1971". |
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http://www.english.uga.edu/hc/unixhistoryrev.html
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| | DBLP: Ken Thompson |
| | Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson: The UNIX Time-Sharing System. | | | Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson: The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Abstract). | | | Daniel E. Cooke, Joseph E. Urban, Scott Hamilton, Ken Thompson: Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson. |
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http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/t/Thompson:Ken.html
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| | Bibliography ken |
| | Thompson, sc Unix Time-Sharing System: sc Unix Implementation, Bell Sys. | | | Condon and K. Thompson, Belle, Chess Skill in Man and Machine, Ed. | | | Ritchie and K. Thompson, The sc Unix Time-Sharing System, Comm. |
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http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/bib2html/ken.html
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| | TLC :: Hackers: Hackers' Hall of Fame |
| | Current status: Dennis Ritchie is currently the head of Lucent Technology's System Software Research Department, while Ken Thompson has retired from both Bell Labs and the hacker spotlight. | | | An elegant, open operating system for minicomputers, UNIX helped users with general computing, word processing and networking, and soon became a standard language. | | | Little-known fact: Although Ritchie is the author of the popular C programming language, his favorite language is Alef. |
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http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/bio/bio_02.html
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| | There are several challenges presented by UCS which must be dealt with by historical operating systems and the C-language programming environment. | | | >From ken Tue Sep 8 03:22:07 EDT 1992 Here is our modified FSS-UTF proposal. | | | The next day all the code was done and we started converting the text files on the system itself. |
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
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| | Biography : Ken Thompson |
| | Ex Chair and Diploma course Tutor for the British Wheel of Yoga and currently Director of The Essex Alexander School. | | | Ex Diploma Course Tutor for the British Wheel of Yoga and currently Co-Director of the Essex Alexander School. | | | KEN THOMPSON [MSTAT, DipBWY] - With over 40 years experience in the Yoga field and 25 years in Alexander, Ken is in a class of his own. |
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http://website.lineone.net/~ken_thompson/server.html
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| | jargon, node: back door |
| | Ken Thompson has since confirmed that this hack was implemented and that the Trojan Horse code did appear in the login binary of a Unix Support group machine. | | | Normally such a back door could be removed by removing it from the source code for the compiler and recompiling the compiler. | | | In this scheme, the C compiler contained code that would recognize when the `login' command was being recompiled and insert some code recognizing a password chosen by Thompson, giving him entry to the system whether or not an account had been created for him. |
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http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/b/backdoor.html
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| | Ken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ken Thompson is one of the primary creators of Unix. | | | Ken is also perception or understanding, one's range of vision, or sight. | | | Ken Jennings is a well-known contestant on the game show Jeopardy! |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken
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| | Ken Thompson |
| | Home : Programming : Languages : C : Gurus : Ken Thompson | | | About him receiving the Kanai Award for Impact of UNIX* System. |
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http://www.netinformations.com/Detailed/8612.html
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| | :: Entrisphere - About Us - Core Team :: |
| | During his long career at Bell Labs, Ken made numerous developmental contributions to operating systems, programming languages, security, computer chess, digital music systems, and networking equipment. | | | He is best known for his central role in the conceptualization and creation of the UNIX | | | He has received many awards, including the U.S. National Medal of Technology. |
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http://www.entrisphere.com/aboutus/coreteam.php
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| | Washingtonpost.com: Live Online |
| | Ways of doing that might be just writing down your thoughts and prayers and how you feel and getting them to the family member so they know you are support of them. | | | The way I coped was to live in the memory of my loved one. | | | Unfortunately there is all this talk about how insurance might not cover the losses. |
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http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/attack_watkins0917.htm
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| | About Gray Hill Solutions, Inc. - Staff |
| | Allan is the lead software developer with Gray Hill Solutions. | | | A specialist in Marketing and Strategic Planning, Ken also dabbles in technical writing and web design. | | | He is also a cryptology and network security expert who participates regularly in global discussions regarding the use of technology to both protect and invade our privacy. |
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http://www.grayhillsolutions.com/about/staff.htm
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| | New Scientist No Nettles Required by Ken Thompson - Bookends |
| | Fantastic science writing for a lay audience, with sentences such as, "Hoverfly larvae look like lumps of animated snot...but they look far worse if you're an aphid." | | | Thompson's BUGS (Biodiversity in Urban Gardens) programme at the University of Sheffield, UK found that a well-stocked garden with some trees, a compost heap and pond are all you need. | | | New Scientist No Nettles Required by Ken Thompson - Bookends |
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19025462.100-no-nettles-required-by-ken-thompson.html
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| | ChangeThis :: The Bioteaming Manifesto |
| | Robin Good (www.kolabora.com) is an online publisher (www.masternewmedia.org), researcher, and writer on the smart and intelligent use of new media technologies for effective communication. | | | Ken Thompson is an emergent leading expert in the area of virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities and virtual teams. | | | Ken is founder of the www.bioteams.com blog which is a unique online web site dedicated to the explanation of bioteaming concepts and to the reporting on new research becoming available in this new study area. |
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http://www.changethis.com/19.BioteamingManifesto
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| | The Bumble Bee |
| | article by Ken Thompson in Mobile Devices (13) | | | Richard Cross describes how the study of communications in societies untouched by cyberspace has enabled the rediscovery of lost communications instincts and the invention of a new patented technology for knowledge dissemination in enterprises. | | | article by Ken Thompson in Bioteams Features (38) |
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http://www.bioteams.com
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| | Life's lesson: Go past color line |
| | She attributed this to the depth of his experience with black people and his longevity with the program. | | | Though he had a book knowledge of blacks, at school personal experience would deepen his understanding. | | | For Thompson and countless other whites, King sparked a personal journey toward a deeper understanding of racial divisions. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05016/443036.stm
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| | Ken Thompson- Large Sculpture |
| | Others are works that represent creative design projects of a larger scale than his smaller works | | | Ken Thompson's larger works consist mainly of public art and works created for specific clients. |
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http://www.kenthompsonsculpture.com/lrgwork/large.htm
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| | Death Of Mr Ken Thompson - 02/11/2000 - PRIV |
| | They were married in 1945, just before the end of the war, and when Ken was demobbed in 1946, having served in the jungles of Borneo, he returned to the pawnbroking business, where he stayed for the remainder of his working life. | | | On his retirement Ken made a significant contribution to the local community and was well known for his work in and around Our Lady of Fatima parish, attending to the gardens. | | | It seems strange to say just "Ken" Thompson because in all the years I have known Ken I have traditionally used the term "Ken and Joan" Thompson. |
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http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20001102044
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| | History of Inman Park - Ken Thompson |
| | From Ken Thompson - Synthesis, a portfolio of his work. | | | It was created in 1970 by former Inman Park resident, Ken Thompson, when pioneer restorationists, laboring in an environment of neglect, apathy and suspicion, felt the need for some unifying symbol of the restoration spirit. | | | Those who visit our neighborhood are curious about the butterfly. |
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http://www.inmanpark.org/kenj.htm
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| | Ken Thompson |
| | Ken has integrated Motivational Enhancement Therapy with Adult Education philosophy and Humanistic/Rational Emotive Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral approaches in addressing substance abuse and mental health disorders. Ken pioneered the concept of "Enhancing the Teachable Moment" in chemical detoxification and early stage recovery to increase the level of efficacy in several chemical abuse recovery programs. | | | Ken has experience working in federal and state funded social programs for children, teenagers, adults, and the elderly in senior citizen programs. | | | Ken is currently the Clinical Supervisor for the Providence Breakthrough Recovery program. |
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http://www.providence.org/alaska/facilities/breakthrough/kent.htm
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| | Ken Thompson |
| | Ken is responsible for the overall operation of Westgate Travel, planning, development, and operation of incentive trips. | | | Ken is a graduate of Kent State University and has done some post grad work at Case Western Reserve University. | | | Top Value Enterprises as an account executive, Travelmart where he served as V.P of sales, and was President of TTI. |
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http://www.greenrich.com/ken_t.htm
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| | Ken Thompson, chairman, president, and CEO of Wachovia Corporation, spoke to Moore School graduate students February 3 at the Russell House Theater. | | | Thompson joined First Union Corporation in 1976 and rose through the ranks to become chairman and CEO in 2000. | | | During his speech, Thompson stressed the importance of internal communication in business. |
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http://mooreschool.sc.edu/moore/pr/news/EventsNews/wachovia_lecture_thompson.htm
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| | UCPE-Ken Thompson |
| | Ken Thompson is a senior researcher at the University of Sheffield, UK, with over 25 years’ research experience. | | | Grime, J P, Brown, V K, Thompson, K, Masters, G J, Hillier, S H, Clarke, I P, Askew, A P, Corker, D and Kielty, J P. The response of two contrasting limestone grasslands to simulated climate change. | | | Graduate students also have access to the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory (BCCIL), the UK’s leading centre for research into the environmental impacts of climate change. |
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/~nuocpe/ucpe/ken.html
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| | deyja.com |
| | Ken’s family was more fortunate than others as his father managed to find work as an electrician and they owned a Model T Ford. | | | They moved to Sunnybrae British Columbia where they operated a sawmill. | | | As an expression of sympathy memorial donations for the late Kenneth Thompson may be made to the donor’s choice. |
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http://www.deyja.com/displayobita.cfm?subid=1443
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| | Ken Burns Civil War Dvd: Ken Thompson |
| | Ken is also featured in the new DVD release Genesis: The Key to Reclaiming the... | | | KEN LAYNE AND THE CORVIDS: Fought Down andmiddot; KEN LAYNE: The Analog Bootlegs andmiddot; SPLOID andmiddot; Scrub Jay Records ken.layne-at-gmail.com. | | | Ken Thompson retired from: Bell Laboratories 666 Mountain Ave. |
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http://www.bigalows.com/Ken-Burns-Civil-War-Dvd/2006/02/ken-thompson.html
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| | Ken Thompson |
| | Today, in addition to navigating the First Union-Wachovia merger, Thompson also serves on the boards of Teach for America, the YMCA and United Way. | | | As he became a Morehead, Thompson appreciated something weightier: The Morehead’s lifelong designation. | | | As Thompson made his way through UNC, he felt a responsibility as a Morehead, “a responsibility to do well.” The American Studies major went on to earn his MBA at Wake Forest and took a job with then-First Union. |
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http://www.moreheadfoundation.org/alumni/thompson.html
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| | Professor Ken Thompson |
| | Kenneth Thompson, graduated from Leicester and holds a Ph.D.Phil from Oxford University he joined the Open University in June 1970. | | | He is a Faculty Fellow of the Yale Centre for Cultural Sociology. | | | In the sociology of culture, his publications focus on the roles of beliefs in institutional settings. |
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http://www.open.ac.uk/graduation2005/pop44225.shtml
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| | BW Online January 12, 2004 Ken Thompson |
| | So far, Thompson's hitch-your-wagon-to-me approach appears to be paying off: Wachovia's operating income was on track to rise 30% in 2003, to $6.09 billion. | | | For a mere $400 million in up-front integration costs, Thompson emerged with a network of 12,000 brokers peddling not just stocks and bonds, but mortgages, car loans, and other products. | | | (PRU) The deal was Thompson's biggest coup yet. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_02/b3865708.htm
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| | Ken Burns Civil War Dvd: Ken Thompson |
| | And numerous Jon and/or Ken shows in 2001 upstairs... | | | The latest Ken Stringfellow release Soft Commands--released July 2004 by Yep... | | | Devoted exclusively to the man behind the doll, Barbie's male companion Ken. Site includes news, message board, and information about past Barbie conventions. |
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http://www.bigalows.com/Ken-Burns-Civil-War-Dvd/2006/03/ken-thompson_05.html
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