Now, via some remarkable salvage work, the oldest known machine-readable copy of Unix, from Dennis Ritchie's own backup tapes, over half a century old, has been coaxed back into life. Code ...

Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, and Brian Kernighan come to mind. After all, the K in both K&R C and in AWK stand for Kernighan. While Kernighan is no stranger to book authorship — he’s written ...