[TUHS] National Inventors Hall of Fame honors creators of Unix

Warren Toomey wkt at tuhs.org
Wed Jan 9 10:35:16 AEST 2019


https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/08/national-inventors-hall-of-fame-class-of-2019/

The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) joined Engadget on stage
today at CES to announce its 2019 class of inductees. [ including ] ...

Dennis Ritchie (Posthumous) and Ken Thompson: UNIX Operating System
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Thompson and Ritchie's creation of the UNIX operating system and the C
programming language were pivotal developments in the progress of computer
science. Today, 50 years after its beginnings, UNIX and UNIX-like systems
continue to run machinery from supercomputers to smartphones. The UNIX
operating system remains the basis of much of the world's computing
infrastructure, and C language -- written to simplify the development
of UNIX -- is one of the most widely used languages today.

Cheers, Warren


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