When Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie began creating the Unix operating system in 1969, they did not envision that their work would become a backbone of the computer revolution that has transformed ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Ritchie and Thompson both worked with BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language), which was used on Multics.

Dennis Ritchie built C because he and Ken Thompson needed a better way to build UNIX. The original UNIX kernel was written in assembly language, but they soon decided they needed a “higher level ...

BERKELEY HEIGHTS — Forty years after they invented the UNIX computer operating system at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, Berkeley Heights resident Dr. Dennis Ritchie and Dr. Kenneth Thompson will rece ...

After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and ... being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Ritchie spent most of his career at Bell Labs, which at the ...

Dennis Ritchie, a computer scientist who changed ... the operating system Ritchie helped develop with Bell colleague Kenneth Thompson. Microsoft Windows-based personal computers and many Apple ...

Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr ... the PDP-11 at SUNY-Stony Brook—the same model computer that Ritchie, Kenneth Thompson and their team used to create Unix—and for me to write ...

The gizmos of the digital age owe a part of their numeric souls to Dennis Ritchie and ... internet applications). Mr Ritchie and his life-long collaborator, Ken Thompson, then used C to write ...

Dennis Ritchie built C because he and Ken Thompson needed a better way to build UNIX. The original UNIX kernel was written in assembly language, but they soon decided they needed a “higher level ...

Dennis M. Ritchie, who was often know by the handle ... he created the C programming language (with some help, particularly from Ken Thompson, his colleague at Bell Labs, which Ritchie joined ...

Dennis Ritchie is the father of the C programming language that he and fellow Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson used to build UNIX. The New York Times reported that Ritchie died on October 12 ...