From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] RIP J.F.Ossanna
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:28:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161127222855.GZ6149@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1611280912120.32511@aneurin.horsfall.org>
I've always morned that he died so early. I would have liked to talk
to him, I love troff to this day.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 09:15:00AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> We lost J.F.Ossanna in 1977; he had a hand in developing Unix, and was
> responsible for "roff" and its descendants. Remember him, the next time
> you see "jfo" in documentation.
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-27 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-27 22:15 Dave Horsfall
2016-11-27 22:17 ` Ron Natalie
2016-11-27 22:28 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2016-11-28 0:11 Norman Wilson
2017-11-27 22:05 Dave Horsfall
2017-11-28 0:06 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-28 0:15 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] ` <20171129190055.9ZFVf%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
2017-11-30 2:48 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-30 15:44 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-11-30 20:43 ` Noel Hunt
2017-11-30 22:36 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-11-28 0:14 ` Larry McVoy
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