Ken Thompson, Father of Unix: Why Deleting 1,000 Lines of Code Was His Most Productive Day
Ken Thompson’s name is inseparable from the origins of Unix, the operating system that quietly shaped the digital world we inhabit today. As a pioneering computer scientist at Bell Labs in the late 1960s, Thompson co-created Unix alongside Dennis Ritchie, laying the groundwork for everything from modern Linux distributions to macOS and the server infrastructure … Read more