Brief History of C
- C and UNIX opearting system share a complex history
- C was originally designed for and implemented on UNIX on a PDP-11 computer
- Dennis Ritchie was the author of C (around 1971)
- In 1973, UNIX was rewritten in C
- B (author: Ken Thompson, 1970) was the predecessor to C, but there was no A
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