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To young researchers around the world
2011 (27th) Japan Prize; Dr. Ritchie / Dr. Thompson
Dennis M. Ritchie
Since its birth, Unix has been widely used by governments and civilians for over 40 years. I believe it became a successful unique system because it was developed by a small team for their own use, with a very simple design. I feel the long running success of UNIX can be credited to the research in which we had total freedom to research whatever we liked.
Ken L. Thompson
"Research" and "development" are two different things. "Development" has clear goals but "research" is goalless, because it's the act of discovering something new. If you are a researcher, you need to continue enjoying your research at hand. Other than Unix, I've had many research topics like voice recognition, language, searching, security, games, and whatever I found intersting. Unix resulted from a research on new thing we were merely interested in, and we are very luckey it turned out to be very fruitful.
MIT 6.S081 Lecture Notes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Virtual Memory
- 3. Special Topic: Traps
- 4. Interrupts
- 5. Scheduler
- 6. File System - Part i
- 7. File System - Part ii