Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie

Members of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories

Bell Labs

1 standalone talk · 1 total lecture · 1h recorded

Computer Systems & Software

Standalone talks by Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie

Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.

The UNIX Operating System: Pipes, Files, and Composable Tools

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Systems & CS·Public Colloquium

The UNIX Operating System: Pipes, Files, and Composable Tools

Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie·Bell Labs

Historic Bell Labs presentation demonstrating hierarchical file descriptors, standard I/O pipelines, the C language, and building complex software out of small composable filters.

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EditorialSystems & CS·undergraduate

Operating Systems, UNIX & Systems Craft

Kernel isolation, composable pipes, SQLite bytecode, Git, and Linux tracing

Bell Labs · MIT · Carnegie Mellon University +2

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