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From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:44:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111013134427.GB12236@skaro.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5DE508C5-CB25-4738-AB3F-FF9357910F3E@gmail.com>

It is so sad that the people most responsible for the key software
technologies are almost unheard of by the general public, and most
credit seems to be given to people that jump on the bandwagon much
later..

If there was a Nobel prize for software, dmr would have been one of
the top on my list.

DigbyT

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:19:01AM -0400, ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com wrote:
> C and UNIX were each very significant turning points in my life for various reasons.  Two thoughts:
>
> printf("Thank you DMR!\n");
>
> return EXIT_SUCCESS;
--
Digby R. S. Tarvin                                          digbyt(at)digbyt.com
http://www.digbyt.com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-13 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-13  5:29 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-10-13  5:35 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-10-13  6:57   ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-13 13:19 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2011-10-13 13:44   ` Digby Tarvin [this message]
2011-10-13 13:30 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-13 15:19 ` pera
2011-10-13 16:56   ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 17:26     ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-13 17:40       ` simon softnet
2011-10-13 18:24       ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 18:38         ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-13 17:19   ` tlaronde
2011-10-13 17:22     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-10-13 19:30       ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-13 20:02         ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-13 21:19         ` Nick LaForge
2011-10-13 22:57           ` Thomas
2011-10-13 23:20             ` Bruce Ellis
2011-10-24  8:46         ` Akshat Kumar
2011-11-10  9:43           ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-11-10 12:56             ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-11-10 12:57             ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-11-11  0:10               ` clinton
2011-10-13 18:14   ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2020-09-28 18:32 Sad news Dan Cross
2020-09-28 18:54 ` [9fans] " Gorka Guardiola
2020-09-28 19:24   ` Gabriel Díaz López De La Llave
2020-09-28 19:29 ` Federico Benavento
2020-09-28 19:38   ` Don Bailey
2020-09-28 21:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2020-09-29  3:44   ` Lucio De Re
2020-09-29  8:01     ` enrique.soriano
2020-09-29  8:07 ` Francisco Ballesteros
2020-09-29 11:57   ` elbingmiss
2020-09-30  8:20     ` Sergey Zhilkin
2020-09-30  8:43 ` Christopher Nielsen
2020-09-29  8:14 Steve Simon

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