From: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: Per Brinch Hansen
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 21:10:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3212b1fa-895a-c2b1-7e19-f3b612c31f74@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1807311023480.18081@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 2018-07-30 8:40 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> [ I've always posted these to TUHS with no objections, so I have no idea
> whether COFF would be a better forum; feel free to spank me (I might
> even enjoy it!) ]
>
> We lost Per Brinch Hansen, a computer scientist, on this day in 2007.
> He specialised in operating systems and concurrent programming, and
> wrote the classic book "Operating System Principles" which was published
> in six languages for decades. He also wrote another book "The
> Architecture of Concurrent Programs" which demonstrated an entire
> operating system written in Concurrent Pascal (much like the Lions'
> books on Unix).
His anthology "Classic Operating Systems" is also an informative read
and I think can be found online.
--Toby
>
> -- Dave
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-31 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-31 0:40 Dave Horsfall
2018-07-31 1:10 ` Toby Thain [this message]
2018-07-31 7:25 ` Wesley Parish
2018-08-02 12:44 Doug McIlroy
2018-08-02 13:10 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2018-08-02 14:07 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-02 15:44 ` Bakul Shah
2018-08-05 23:18 ` Perry E. Metzger
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