40 лет UNIX

August 2009 marks the 40th birthday of the UNIX operating system. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, used the monthlong absence of his wife and son to sit down and code some of the most important software ever. Thompson spent a week each writing the operating system, a shell, an editor and an assembler for what would eventually be called UNIX. Thompson and colleague, Dennis Ritchie, began coming up with ideas for UNIX earlier in 1969, but it was in August of 1969 that my favorite operating system of all-time was given life.