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** [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/retro.html The UNIX Time-sharing System - A Retrospective] ([https://wwww.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/retro.pdf PDF]) | ** [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/retro.html The UNIX Time-sharing System - A Retrospective] ([https://wwww.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/retro.pdf PDF]) | ||
** [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/chist.html The Development of the C Language] ([https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/chist.pdf PDF]) | ** [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/chist.html The Development of the C Language] ([https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/chist.pdf PDF]) | ||
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** [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/odd.html Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix] | ** [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/odd.html Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix] | ||
** [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/portpapers.html Papers about Unix Portability] | ** [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/portpapers.html Papers about Unix Portability] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:07, 10 June 2025
Dennis Ritchie (often referred to as dmr) was an influential American computer scientist, best known for his work on UNIX and the C programming language - both produced in collaboration with Ken Thompson.
He attended Harvard, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1963, and more or less completed a doctoral degree in 1968. He went to work at Bell Labs in 1967, joining the Computing Sciences Research Center; he spent the rest of his career at the Labs, and its descendants. In 1968, he was part of the Bell team which joined the Multics project; after Bell pulled out of Multics, he and Thompson eventually fell into UNIX and C.
Further reading
- Brian Kernighan, UNIX: A History and a Memoir - has a brief bio of Ritchie at the end of Chapter 3
External links
- Dennis Ritchie's Home Page
- The Unix Time-sharing System (PDF) - 1978 BSTJ verson
- The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System (PDF)
- The UNIX Time-sharing System - A Retrospective (PDF)
- The Development of the C Language (PDF)
- Five Little Languages and How They Grew
- Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix
- Papers about Unix Portability
- An amusing photo - "Ken and [DMR] in front of a PDP-11"
- Ken and DMR - from another angle
- Dennis Ritchie Thesis - in addition to a lot of content about the thesis, it also contains much fascinating material about Dennis from the family archives
- Discovering Dennis Ritchie's Lost Dissertation
- How did Dennis Ritchie Produce his PhD Thesis? A Typographical Mystery
