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The outstanding pedigree of Linux
(September 9, 1941 -- October 12, 2011)
Linux is a clone of Unix, the operating system, which won a Turing Award (aka Nobel Prize for Computer Science) for its developers Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. The Turing award citation for Dennis Ritchie says " With Ken Thompson, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system." Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 -- October 12, 2011), and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999.
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