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Author: kocotian <kocotian@kocotian.pl>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 13:53:38 +0100
unix and multics; dennis ritchie
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+Geniuses in technology
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+UNIX and Multics
+
+—— Dennis Ritchie ——
+
+Dennis MacAllistar Ritche born in 9 September 1941 in Bronxville.
+He studied math and physics on Harvard University and became Ph.D.
+
+In 60' of XX Century, MIT and Bell Labs started work on Multics
+system. Multics, programmed for GE-645 computers had many innovative
+solutions, for example - dynamic libraries, hierarchical file system,
+hot-plugging devices.
+
+Unfortunately, Bell Labs left the project in 1969, Dennis with
+Ken Thompson, Douglas McIlroy and Joe Ossanna were last workers
+that worked on Multics. They wanted to start new work from scratch,
+but on lower scale.
+
+UNIX have many innovative features like processes, device files,
+hierarchical file systems, etc.
+UNIX also bringed UNIX Timestamp - Number of seconds passed from
+00:00:00, 01 January 1970 UTC Time, and that is commonly used
+standard.
+
+# C programming language
+
+Dennis died in 12 October 2011 aged 70 and he left us things, that
+we uses everyday.
