Tag: bell-labs

George Stibitz’s 1940 Dartmouth demonstration separated the person issuing a computation from the machine performing it, anticipating remote terminals decades before networked computing became ordinary.

Unix turned a small Bell Labs operating-system project into a durable model built around processes, files, composable tools and a portable implementation in C.

C emerged alongside Unix at Bell Labs and helped demonstrate that operating systems could be written in a high-level language without giving up close control of the machine.