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 ...

In August 1969, Ken Thompson, ... Regardless of the ultimate fate of Unix, the operating system born at Bell Labs 40 years ago has established a legacy likely to endure for decades more.

The standard version of Unix history notes that Ken Thompson ran his Space Travel game program on Multics and wanted to keep it around. The new project, however, was about a lot more than that.

We caught up with the pioneers who brought us the Unix operating system and asked them to share some memories of the early days of Unix development. Unix co-developer Ken Thompson worked at Bell ...

As one of the original versions of Unix, BSD is an ancient operating system.So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it used what are, by today’s standards, strange, even ridiculous security.