Ritchie, Dennis

Ritchie, Dennis definition - hacker
In 1969, he and Ken Thompson developed an open set of rules to run computers on the virtual frontier. They called their standard operating system UNIX, and to hackers then and now, it was and is a thing of beauty.

See Also: Thompson, Ken; UNIX.

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