From the March 1997 Issue of Managing Automation magazine:

"Automation Hall of Fame Winners

... this year's Automation Hall of Fame Winners.

...

Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson: Developers of the UNIX operating system.
This system, which has been a major force in engineering and computer-
aided design, was first created out of an earlier system that had been
developed at General Electric, with assistance from AT&T and others.
UNIX is a very robust operating system with a tight code structure, few
commands, and a simple structured architecture.  Written in C, it required
creating a new programming language.  It can be moved from system to system
without being recompiled."

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