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

Jon Steinhart jon at fourwinds.com
Wed Jan 9 10:38:03 AEST 2019


Warren Toomey writes:
> 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
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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

Huh.  How can the go off and give awards like this to people that Issacson
claims did nothing of value :-)


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