A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time.

I'm posting this here because OS X is my main unix system, though I also use some linux stuff (synology and a ubuntu virtual machine in my mac). I've dabbled with unix off and on for more than 20 ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...