Modern operating systems may seem baroque in their complexity, but nearly every one of them – except for Windows, natch – are based on the idea of simplicity and modularity. This is the lesson that ...
More than four decades ago, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson began sketching out the framework of a new computer operating system at Bell Labs. The pair called the system UNIX. Over the years, their ...
A recently found computer artifact in a university storage closet dates back some 50 years to the foundations of our modern ...
A recording medium more than 50 years old containing UNIX V4, which was said to have no complete copy in existence, has been discovered. According to Professor Rich, the handwriting on the label ...
Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...
July 9, 2008 (Computerworld Australia) SYDNEY – Computerworld interviewed AT&T alumni Stephen C. Johnson about the development of Yet Another Compiler Compiler (YACC), part of a series of ...
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