NEW PROVIDENCE— Dennis Ritchie was supposed to travel to Tokyo last month to receive the prestigious Japan Prize for his role in inventing the UNIX computer operating system. The earthquake and ...

At Bell Labs, Ritchie met Thompson, who had worked on a failed project to write a new operating system. The pair re-imagined the idea and developed UNIX in conjunction with the C programming language.

C was developed so they could port Unix to any computer ... for his role in co-developing the UNIX operating system in 1969. (Victoria Will/AP Images for Japan Prize Foundation) Sean Gallagher ...

But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another ... Kernighan co-authored the first book on the C programming language with Ritchie). Trying to put the best spin possible on ...

Their goal was to write a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system (OS) and in August ... he developed both the Unix OS and the C programming language. As the former reaches its 50 th ...

In 1997 a set of DEC tapes were provided by Dennis Ritchie, as historical artifacts for those interested in the gestation of the UNIX operating system. The resulting archive files have recently ...

Producing the document was no easy task, because at that point the Unix operating system grew by the week ... Written in the C programming language, Unix offered a tight array of efficient ...

One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time. Which is certainly a change from when I first entered the computing industry ...

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system, has died aged 70. While the introduction of Intel's 4004 microprocessor in 1971 is widely ...

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system, has died aged 70. Its inventor, Dennis Ritchie, whose death after a long illness was reported on ...