Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

Dennis RitchieWho created a single OS?Descriptions of Unix are sometimes shortened to "an OS created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie." There is no need to deny the roles of these two men. However, ...

In the 1980s, there was a microcomputer boy who longed for an operating system called UNIX.More than 40 years have passed ...

Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he “had hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.” Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr) was likely the tallest.

In 2000, the Y2K bug came and went without many problems. Despite predictions of widespread failure, crisis was averted by both long-term and last-minute planning and intervention, and no critical ...

In the 1990s and well into the 2000s, if you had mission-critical applications that required zero downtime, resiliency, failover and high performance, but didn’t want a mainframe, Unix was your go-to ...