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Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science.Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system.
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, key proponents of the Unix philosophy. The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It is based on the experience of leading developers of the Unix operating system.
Ken Thompson quietly began answering requests by shipping out tapes and disks, each accompanied by – according to legend – a note signed, "Love, Ken". [ 19 ] In 1973, AT&T released Version 5 Unix and licensed it to educational institutions, and licensed 1975's Version 6 to companies for the first time. [ 20 ]
The Thompson shell was the first Unix shell, introduced in the first version of Unix in 1971, and was written by Ken Thompson. [1] It was a simple command interpreter, not designed for scripting, but nonetheless introduced several innovative features to the command-line interface and led to the development of the later Unix shells.
Unix (/ ˈ j uː n ɪ k s / ⓘ, YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 [1] at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. [4]
The ed text editor was one of the first three key elements of the Unix operating system—assembler, editor, and shell—developed by Ken Thompson in August 1969 on a PDP-7 at AT&T Bell Labs. [2] Many features of ed came from the qed text editor developed at Thompson's alma mater University of California, Berkeley. [4]
In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system. [1] It was also one of the first parts of the system to be designed and implemented by Ken Thompson in the first experimental version of Unix, dated 1969. [2]
Brian Wilson Kernighan (/ ˈ k ɜːr n ɪ h æ n /; [5] [6] born January 30, 1942) [2] is a Canadian computer scientist.He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.