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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...
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Dennis Ritchie, Computer Pioneer Who Developed Unix, Dies at 70

The world has lost another computer pioneer. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who invented the C programming language and co-developped the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Sign ...