[TUHS] Oral history interview with Doug McIlroy

jason-tuhs at shalott.net jason-tuhs at shalott.net
Thu Feb 20 10:26:27 AEST 2020


>> With Doug’s permission, I’d like to bring the group’s attention to a 
>> recent oral history with him by the Computer History Museum.
>>
>> You can find the records for the two interviews here, and in them the 
>> links to the PDF transcripts:
>>
>> https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/?s=mcilroy

> David, thanks for the link to this 2 part oral history (transcribed). It 
> was a wonderful read through Doug’s history as well as the history of 
> how Unix got started and some of the interesting points where Doug and 
> others all made changes that lead to what became that thing called Unix 
> that all of us know a love.

Apologies if I'm missing the obvious, but is the actual audio from this 
interview not available?  I would love to be able to actually listen to 
this rather than just read it.

That said, even just the transcript is an excellent artifact.

Thanks!


  -Jason


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