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Birth of Dennis Ritchie
Born Sept 9 in New York to becoming one of the most famous figures in the history of computing -
Ritchie Early Education
Dennis attended Harvard in 1963 then received a PHD in Mathematics at Harvard -
First Job at Bell Telephone Laboratories
Dennis work developed groundbreaking technologies -
Creation of Unix
Ritchie along with Ken Thompson developed Unix and became the foundation for many operating systems -
Development of B Programming Language
Ritchie used programming to develop the early Unix systems -
Development of C Programming
Ritchie and Brian Kernighen developed C which is the most used programming language in the world -
Publication of C Programming language
Ritchie co wrote a book which is now the standard reference for C programming -
First Unix System on PDP-11
Ritchie managed to port Unix onto the PDP-11 one of the early computers that Unix ran on -
Rise of the Unix operating system
UNix grew in the academic and research communities expanding its influence -
First C Compiler
The first C compiler was developed allowing many to write code programs on many platforms -
Unix began to gain traction
unix and the c language began to see widespread adoption in academic and commercial settings -
Introduction of the Unix system V
ATT released UNIX system V a commercial version of unix based on research work at Bell Labs -
C becomes the standard language
The American National Standards Institute standardized C making it the dominant programming language -
Further Evolution of Unix
UNix became the foundation for modern operating system including Linux and macOS and the influence expanded to businesses -
Death of Dennis Ritchie
The death of Dennis was October 12, 2011 leaving behind a legacy that shaped modern computing