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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX history made easy
Message-ID: <11345@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Oct 89 11:19:47 GMT
References: <17085@rpp386.cactus.org> <8600002@kolmogorov> <11266@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Oct16.123556.25987@odi.com> <10027@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <10027@alice.UUCP> andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
-this strand about ken is silly enough without me adding to it
-but ken is famous for more than unix. he did some important
-work early on (1960's) with regular expressions, ...

Yup.  He's also famous in the world of computer chess.