Groklaw: The Daemon, the GNU, and the Penguin – Ch. 7

“Professor Robert Fabry was on the program at the SOSP where Ken
and Dennis delivered the first paper on Unix. He was full of
enthusiasm when he returned to Berkeley. When he got back to Cory
Hall, his first chore was to attempt to assemble a joint purchase
(by Computer Science, Math and Statistics) of a PDP-11/45.

“He then ordered a tape from Thompson and, in January 1974,
Keith Standiford (a graduate student) installed Unix. As Kirk
McKusick tells the tale, Ken had been involved in all the early
installations–but not this one, ‘though his expertise was soon
needed to determine the cause of several strange system
crashes…'”

Complete
Story