From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] National Inventors Hall of Fame honors creators of Unix
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:38:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201901090038.x090c4uB013516@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190109003516.GA30682@minnie.tuhs.org>
Warren Toomey writes:
> https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/08/national-inventors-hall-of-fame-class-of-2019/
>
> The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) joined Engadget on stage
> today at CES to announce its 2019 class of inductees. [ including ] ...
>
> Dennis Ritchie (Posthumous) and Ken Thompson: UNIX Operating System
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thompson and Ritchie's creation of the UNIX operating system and the C
> programming language were pivotal developments in the progress of computer
> science. Today, 50 years after its beginnings, UNIX and UNIX-like systems
> continue to run machinery from supercomputers to smartphones. The UNIX
> operating system remains the basis of much of the world's computing
> infrastructure, and C language -- written to simplify the development
> of UNIX -- is one of the most widely used languages today.
>
> Cheers, Warren
Huh. How can the go off and give awards like this to people that Issacson
claims did nothing of value :-)
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