Bell Lab's 7 Great Inventions that Changed the World
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siliconindia | Monday, 27 February 2012, 13:17 Hrs
UNIX Operating System and C Programming language
UNIX, which made the internet practical and which is the backbone for today’s many operating systems was developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs.
The C language, which brought expressiveness and efficiency to the programming languages was developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at the Bell Laboratories. The descendants of C language are now the most widely used programming languages in the world.
