* [TUHS] /proc aka the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
@ 2017-01-10 20:36 Doug McIlroy
2017-01-10 20:41 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Doug McIlroy @ 2017-01-10 20:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
> /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
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* [TUHS] /proc aka the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
2017-01-10 20:36 [TUHS] /proc aka the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines Doug McIlroy
@ 2017-01-10 20:41 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-11 13:41 ` Doug McIlroy
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From: Larry McVoy @ 2017-01-10 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 03:36:05PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> > /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.)
Didn't Ron Grimes have something to do with it as well?
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* [TUHS] /proc aka the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
2017-01-10 20:41 ` Larry McVoy
@ 2017-01-11 13:41 ` Doug McIlroy
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From: Doug McIlroy @ 2017-01-11 13:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Didn't Ron Grimes have something to do with it as well?
Ron Gomes. Yes, he was coauthor wiith Roger. Killian's
oriiginal implementation was solo.
Doug
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