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From: "Michaelian Ennis" <michaelian.ennis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Feb 18, 2008 10:18 PM, Michaelian Ennis <michaelian.ennis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2008 8:06 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Name the most important person/people in the computer field to date.
> >         WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR:
> >                 - Bill Gates
> >                 - Steve Jobs
> >         CORRECT:
> >                 - Thompson & Ritchie, all the way! :-)
> >                 - Alan Turing
> >                 - The great Structured Programming trio: Hoare, Dijkstra, and Dahl
> >                 - Knuth

Oh and if you like using transistors for compution,  Pingala had an
interserting contribution.