From: Donald ODona <mutiny.mutiny@india.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>, dave@horsfall.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: J.F.Ossanna
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:20:36 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487083359.83071.1543396836749.JavaMail.tomcat@india-live-be03> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811280844370.14680@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Joe sold the (not really existent) UNIX system to the patent department of AT&T, which in turn bought the urgently needed PDP11. Without that there would be no UNIX. Without Joe there would be no UNIX.
At 27 Nov 2018 21:48:51 +0000 (+00:00) from Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>:
> We lost J.F. Ossanna on this day 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 Unix documentation.
>
> -- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-28 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-27 21:47 Dave Horsfall
2018-11-27 23:08 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2018-11-28 2:57 ` Larry McVoy
2018-11-28 4:48 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2018-11-28 14:44 ` Dan Cross
2018-11-28 17:08 ` Paul Winalski
2018-11-28 19:03 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-11-28 19:04 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-11-28 17:57 ` Earl Baugh
2018-11-28 18:23 ` ron minnich
2018-11-29 17:54 ` [TUHS] [OT] azel - was " Toby Thain
2018-11-29 17:57 ` Warner Losh
[not found] ` <CAG=a+rhvgikmvEPS_Z-umK2XPYfaxHmov_3QZuD0GcE97BN1qw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-29 20:11 ` Toby Thain
2018-11-28 5:22 ` [TUHS] " Fabio Scotoni
2018-11-28 9:20 ` Donald ODona [this message]
2018-11-29 3:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-28 13:09 Noel Chiappa
2019-11-27 20:53 Dave Horsfall
2019-11-28 0:06 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-28 0:43 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-11-28 17:16 ` ron
2019-11-28 17:18 ` ron
2019-11-28 0:46 ` David Arnold
2019-11-28 3:43 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-30 17:45 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-11-28 9:19 ` Thomas Paulsen
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