The UNIX Operating System: Pipes, Files, and Composable Tools
Historic Bell Labs presentation demonstrating hierarchical file descriptors, standard I/O pipelines, the C language, and building complex software out of small composable filters.
Dennis Ritchie
Turing LaureateACM A.M. Turing Award (1983) — Creator of C & Co-Creator of Unix
1983 ACM Turing Laureate who created the C programming language and co-created the Unix operating system at Bell Labs.
Co-taught withBrian Kernighan
Standalone talks by Dennis Ritchie
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