- Ken THompson and Daniel Ritchie scratched their own itch at Bell Labs
- code flexibility -> the unix philisophy
- separation of kernel, shell and utilities
- multi-user / time-sharing
- the C programming language
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FjX7r5icV8
What UNIX meant to the computer science communuty of the time: Professor Brailsford remembers the Unix revolution
Fact check this: What's that anecdote of the game (moonlander?) they were writing in their spare time for which they needed a basic OS and that became UNIX?