“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 the world.“The two Bell Labs computer scientists – named today as winners
of the 2011 Japan Prize for information and communications – just
wanted to build a better operating system.“”I did it as a backlash against the bad operating systems of
the day,” said Thompson, 67. “We were just trying to get something
better to get our own work done.”
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