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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language.
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Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system alternative to the batch processing systems then dominating the computer industry.
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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system alternative to the batch processing systems then dominating the computer industry.
Oct 12, 2011 · Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson created UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system, and C, a portable and widely used programming language. They met at Bell Labs in 1967 and collaborated for 40 years, receiving many honors and awards.
After graduation, Ritchie and Ken Thompson joined the Bell Laboratories Computing Sciences Research Center in Murray Hill, NJ. At the time, staff members of this group had considerable latitude in choosing research topics in computing theory, languages, programming and systems.
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Oct 17, 2019 · In the summer of 1969, that same summer that saw humankind’s first steps on the surface of the Moon, computer scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories—most centrally Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie—began the construction of a new operating system, using a then-aging DEC PDP-7 computer at the labs.
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