Meet The Creators Of World's Most Successful Operating System


Ken Thompson:

Ken Thompson is mainly regarded as the co-developer of Unix. During his stint at Bell Labs from 1966 to 2000, Thompson wrote the B programming language, which was actually known to be the precursor to the C language. Later on, he wrote Unix in C and then again developed parts of it to include them in Doug Mcllroy’s pipes. Today, he currently works as a Distinguished Engineer at Google.

Dennis Ritchie (Sept 9, 1941 – Oct 12, 2011)

Well known as the creator of the C programming language, Dennis Ritchie was also the co-developer of the Unix operating system. Ritchie also worked at Bell Labs, which later on merged with AT&T and then later on branched into Lucent Technologies. Some of his important books in programming include "Unix Programmer's Manual" (1971) and "The C Programming Language" (1978) with Brian Kernighan.

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