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.

Thompson’s operating system was one of them. He’d been working on it that winter and had figured out how to make every terminal connected to the machine print “HELLO” at the same time.

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.

Unix was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T, who scaled down the sophisticated, multiuser MULTICS operating system for Digital's PDP-7. The Unix name was coined as a ...

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 ...

An operating system for quantum computers allows for ... The transformation was driven by foundational concepts introduced by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs with their UNIX ...