Thanks to MadMike for
this link.
“President Clinton announced the National Medal of Technology
has been awarded to Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, co-inventors
of the Unix operating system.”
“Invented in 1969, Unix has become one of the most prevalent and
adaptive operating systems in computing history.”
” In fact, Unix was the first commercial portable operating
system. It became the guts of most large Internet servers,
businesses and universities. Much academic and industrial research
on operating systems is Unix-based, as are such free operating
systems as Linux.”