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"All operating systems know when they were born. Their internal clocks start counting from then, so they can calculate the date and time in the future. It is unclear whether it was Mr Ritchie or Mr Thompson who set the so-called start Unix time at January 1st, 1970. That moment came to be known as the epoch. Mr Ritchie helped bring it about. And with it, he ushered in a new era."

Well said.

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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> Babbage used his first Sun Unix workstation at university in the 1980s It says so in the article. Which Babbage are they talking about?

"The blog takes its name from Charles Babbage, a Victorian mathematician and engineer who designed a mechanical computer."

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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> Babbage used his first Sun Unix workstation at university in the 1980s It says so in the article. Which Babbage are they talking about?

Babbage is the name of the Economist's Science & Tech blog, which this story was posted under. The blog name is being used to stand-in for the author's in that sentence.
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