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8.%20The%20Origins%20of%20Unix%20and%20the%20C%20Language/ #8

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utterances-bot commented 4 months ago

8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language

In the 1960s, while ITS was developed at MIT, AT&T Bell Labs fostered a similar hacker spirit, creating Unix and the C language. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, transitioning from the Multics project, aimed for simplicity and efficiency, developing Unix on PDP-7 and later porting it to PDP-11. The creation of the C language, evolving from B, allowed Unix to be rewritten in a high-level language, setting a foundational standard for modern computing and operating system development...

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Hobart commented 4 months ago

Nice work! May I suggest that you include mention of Space Travel, which was the initial motivation for why Ken was developing on the spare PDP at Bell, and eventually became an operating system? :^)

nijek commented 4 months ago

Very nice!!

joone commented 4 months ago

See more comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40061298

Hobart commented 3 months ago

I see that the HN comments in your link mention the PDP-1 game "Spacewar!" , which is different than Ken Thompson's early Unix work on his own game "Space Travel" (linked in prev. comment)