Interview - Dennis Ritchie (unix.se)

[Posted February 7, 2003 by ris]

Unix.se has published an interview with Dennis Ritchie.

What do you consider your greatest achievement in the field of computing to be?

Dennis Ritchie: The single thing that I'm happiest about is that the notion of making the Unix system portable was mostly mine. C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.