From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:36:05 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] /proc aka the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines Message-ID: <201701102036.v0AKa58R018944@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> > /proc came from research Indeed it did. > /proc was done by Roger at AT&T (maybe USL). I recall him telling me that > he was not the original author though and that it came from PWB. Roger Faulkner's /proc article, recently cited in tuhs, begins with acknowledgment to Tom Killian, who originated /proc in research. (That was Tom's spectacular debut when he switched from high-energy physics, at Argonne IIRC, to CS at Bell Labs.) doug