Published at LXer:

If you don't like history, don't worry, I'm not a big fan either. But this kind of history is different: it's (supposedly) fun, educative, and right on time. Right on time because not so long ago one of the founding fathers of Unix, Dennis Ritchie, passed away, so we felt this article was in order. This is not the kind of article where you're supposed to have some knowledge about this and that. Many people don't know the origins of their operating system of choice, and in order to understand it better, you should know where it's coming from.

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