In one form or another, C has influenced the shape ... this new computer would need both an operating system and at least one high-level programming language. There was little thought given ...

Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow.

He was the inventor of the programming language known as C and co-inventor of the operating system Unix, another innovation that came from Bell Labs in the late 1960s and early ’70s. When Dr ...

By 1973, Ritchie and Thompson had rewritten Unix in C, developing its syntax, functionality, and beyond to give the language the ability to program an operating system. The kernel was published in ...

These very early versions of Unix predate the development of the C programming language. They were hand-coded in assembly ...

As a command language, it provides a user interface to the process-related facilities of the UNIX operating system. (S.R Bourne ... is merely testing the value of the program's exit value by writing a ...

US computer scientist Dennis Ritchie - one of the co-inventors of the Unix operating system and the C programming language - has died at 70 after a long illness. Ritchie worked with Ken Thompson ...

One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time. Which is certainly a change from when I first entered the computing industry ...

O’Reilly & Associates has released “Learning Unix for Mac OS X,” a new US$19.95 book by Dave Taylor and Jerry Peek that offers an introduction to getting started with Unix functions on Mac OS X.