Dennis Ritchie Quotes About Unix
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UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
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It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.
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C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new
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Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the basis of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike was the real force in getting it together). And in the meantime Ken created the first computer chess master and pretty much rewrote the book on chess endgames. He is quite a phenomenon.
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From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.
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Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.
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UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.
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It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
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Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.
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The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.
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Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.
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Dennis Ritchie
- Born: September 9, 1941
- Died: October 12, 2011
- Occupation: Computer Scientist
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