Pushing the Limits of Technology: The Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Story

Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system alternative to the batch processing systems then dominating the computer industry.
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[@wisdomandhumanity2732]

I look up to these legends. I have realized I still have a lot to do in my career in computer science

[@VIPUL46]

We are in the same boat brother 😊

[@halfaddercircuit]

@@VIPUL46 yes, we are all in the same boat

[@codebuilders9081]

only programmers know about them. everyone should know about them

[@shortswithadr3182]

Yeah no one care about him ,but they don't know who sacrificed his life for our generation ,and they don't know now what they are using behind it logics and algorithms are settled. And theses revolution could possible only due to D.Ritchie👍

[@popedhop]

I'm not programming

[@pmanolak]

sadly in history the peoples who offer the maximum to humanity remain unknown to the mass public. As an example, how many people, especially the younger, knows Alexander Fleming who discovered Penicillins and save billions of lives even today?!!

[@cgme7076]

Complete geniuses. They contributed SO much to modern computing.

[@ningyangwang7512]

Respect Thompson & Ritchie make a great contribution to the progress of human society!

[@glyphicon330]

I wouldn't be watching videos on youtube if it wasn't for you both. THANKS!

[@Mythologos]

Wish this was a full-length movie or docu-series!

[@1889990]

I wish there was more of thompson and ritchie on the internet. I recently watched an interview of thompson it was such a delight.

[@vincenzo-zocca]

This is 3:10 minutes of well edited stuff. We can't thank Mr. Thompson and Mr. Ritchie enough for their ideas and their work, which 50 years on still serve purposes and inspire people. I and many with me would watch a full documentary about Mr. Thompson, Mr. Ritchie, Mr. Kernigham and UNIX.

[@shan1268]

Dennis Ritchie = Leonadro Da Vinci of computing & C Language = Mona Lisa.

[@dennisritchie149]

You're god damn right.

[@postiemania]

​@@dennisritchie149 This is the real deal. RIP Dennis, your work makes you immortal.

[@navjotsinghenglish]

Thanks for the unix and c language.

[@dennisritchie149]

N/p

[@alexa.davronov1537]

Fuck C.

[@eric-jt4ij]

@@alexa.davronov1537 what is wrong

[@proshadu606]

@@alexa.davronov1537 C strong

[@alexa.davronov1537]

@@proshadu606 No.

[@Anonymous-jp8rh]

I wanna achieve something like these legends😕 Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie are very important to the history of Computing.

[@Scriabin_fan]

These men should be known throughout the world, they've completely revolutionized the world.

[@ercntreras]

"There is no user in Unix, there's no third person. It's first person, it has no more that it needs, it just does what it's supposed to do" Ken Thompson

[@dorlo_cot61]

Who could dislike this, is like art at its finnest

[@krishnasaijonnalagedda7572]

Such people are worth remembering throughout history

[@Cargren18]

I feel sad that Dennis Ritchie is no longer with us but i can't see Ken Thompson leaving us although he is going to leave us on one day. Thanks Sir Dennis Ritchie and Sir Ken Thompson for powering most of the electronic gadgets made in this world. I am currently learning Golang and in my opinion, it is good in both performance and simplicity making it the best programming language in the modern times (yeah and before people start raging at me let ke tell you that it's just my opinion ).

[@blackhatson13]

This is the highest res video of Ken Thompson I've seen so far 😂

[@brianjames8106]

#include int main() { printf("thank you dennis and ken"); }

[@jackstonebrooks8892]

brian james This sucks, especially because the return type int in your example doesn’t return anything. The return 0 statement means to exit the program with no errors. Your code should be like so: #include int main( void ) { printf( “Thank you, Dennis and Ken.” ) ; return 0 ; } Alternatively you could also use puts() ; This code is more acceptable and Will have less warnings/errors coming from the compiler. Besides, it’s punctuated better. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson would be proud. ;)

[@dennisritchie149]

You forgot to return 0; it's required to avoid warnings while compling with -gwall.

[@rakeshhotker7841]

print("Thank you Dennis and Ken")

[@top_1_florentino]

@@jackstonebrooks8892 void main() {} :V

[@ScipioWasHere]

Echo thx

[@lone.wo1f]

Ken Thompson now works at *Google,* he is one of the programers behind the *Go language* ...

[@rdubb77]

And Golang is great. The simplicity of C with modern Python like features.

[@MatejVancoCG]

It's funny that most of the greatest inventors had been motivated by games

[@saberwork]

Games are just problems disguised as fun. :-)

[@demr04]

More like games, it's doing stuff for your own sake, instead of follow the market research or something else.

[@smorrow]

Who would that be? Claude Shannon, Ken Thompson, ... ?

[@Joel-mp2oo]

It still blows me away, true pioneers.

[@treeman_mj]

👏👏👏 without these men I wouldn’t have the career I have now

[@thecrabpulsar]

Literally hairs standing on the back of my neck watching a living legend talk about an OS that runs the world today.

[@rahallde]

First things first. Thank you Ken and Dennis! 2nd - dude the table? behind Ken, the view, the size... holy poo

[@andreassteffensen1829]

This is the only computer science class we need, And its only 3 Minutes long! Now let's start building something for ourself.

[@Whateverworksism]

Thank you Ken Thompson and thank you Dennis Ritchie. May you rest in peace, Dennis.

[@ly.oung119]

These guys are so special.

[@4-r-k]

Thank you for your amazing creation.

[@TON-vz3pe]

Thompson and Richie are the Forefathers of the computers we have now. Without them, all this modern stuff like Banking, Space programs, IT, Mobiles, God, nothing would exist.

[@ИльясМаметов-и1о]

That's interesting, how the video of 2 great minds who put foundation for modern operating systems, who developed C, whose libraries are so well written back then, that used even today - have only 20k views. Crazy.

[@ravish-shankar]

These folks have seen the truth very close. Damn! It is brilliant.

[@manuelthecolombianvyonder2544]

Forget Steve Jobs! Dennis Ritchie is a real genius!

[@mitchelvalentino1569]

Thank you, gentlemen.

[@luv2stack]

Inspiring. Legends

[@tineocedric]

such nice footage and interviews - and just a shallow 3:10 movie ? where is the full documentary ?

[@Inkling777]

Thanks for the excellent photography, particularly that of old tech. I grow tired of YT videos that fill a screen with irrelevant video shorts.

[@tommyontrip]

Gary Kildall was also instrumental in the mini computer revolution, with CP/M. 🤓

[@lukealadeen7836]

Thats Dr Kildall to us 🤓

[@rdubb77]

True, but without UNIX there would be no CP/M its knock-off, MS-DOS. But what Kildall was able to do within the constraints of the first microcomputers was amazing; genius work.

[@mavhunter8753]

The solution these guys found -- was so simple it took two geniuses to find it out!!

[@johnathanstevens8436]

Coming from the primitiveness of CP/M and MS-DOS or forms driven screens on IBM minis .. the idea that you could refactor and recombine different little utilities so easily to produce an output was AMAZING to me. Sure, DOS had redirection but it was just not the same. You could write a whole print filter on your own and connect it to the spooler, no problem.

[@raghunc]

Gurus of computer science

[@proshadu606]

Thanks the Unix & C

[@milossimicsimo]

Legends!

[@aspireshekar]

Legends massive respect

[@jotagalvan]

you re not a modern human if you dont pay its props to these two mens.

[@dennisritchie149]

Fo Shizzle.

[@juntaotan3740]

Great minds!

[@livemchan9817]

2:47 "There's no user in Unix, there's no third person. It's first person."

[@ECE_Solutions2024]

Real evolutionary creators of modern computing

[@lucaleung5892]

The American accent sound really good. The good old day of America.

[@RM-gm7lu]

LEGEND!!!!!!

[@smorrow]

No mention of Rudd Canaday?

[@luisgonzalez1637]

True O.G.s of computing

[@vamasajoshi2703]

Wow wonderful inventor...

[@KrllGuitar]

The legends

[@RachelPrior]

These are humans in a rolling world. An evolving society or eco-society.

[@thesatirist7180]

These are legends woth winning for nobel price. The late Dr. Dennis Ritchie would have won that, imagine all preceeding high level programming languages where built on top of c lang. Python would not be there, C++ would not be there, java would no be there. There should be a place in the nobel price for technology and computer science...

[@pscheie]

There is the Turing Award which is sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize in computing. It was awarded to Thompson & Ritchie in 1983 for creating Unix.

[@TheGagi82]

So familiar intro voice...yes,it is Prophet from Crysis.

[@GuyCastorp]

movie pls

[@jamesdavis5096]

1:22 interesting. He broke into pinball machines to get the schematics...to study them and learn logic.

[@alvarohigino]

Is Unix still being updated?

[@philteng760]

When the first time I learned binary operators, I was intellectually shocked.

[@michelecampanelli5419]

❤❤❤

[@prakharshankar8636]

These are gods, we should know about them

[@rishindoshi4383]

wow 3 minute long story..riveting

[@Sk1tara]

package main import "fmt" funct main(){ fmt.Println("Thanks for Go!") }

[@richardlitwin4046]

Linux is a product of the Internet and the Internet is the product of Linux. (McKimmie)

[@RachelPrior]

❤️❤️❤️💞💞💞💞💞❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@pmanolak]

These peoples deserved to be wider known that Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates or Bezos.

[@Norm8n]

GM Ben Finegold brought me Here.

[@abigailpoppins6183]

LAN me?

[@quantumfluctuations1]

thats all? only 3 minutes??

[@itzyfan88]

File systems are inherent; an interface represents an underlying quantum state; quantum state transitions are computed by CPU.

[@crimsonitacilunarnebula]

games

[@xexyz0xexyl]

They weren't 'virtually identical'. They were identical. Same exact code entirely. That should be noted.

[@goodmen3272]

Loukmamiss

[@abigailpoppins6183]

No Sorry!!!

[@WabuhWabuh]

not the right narrator voice for this type of things...