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From: "Thomas Paulsen" <thomas.paulsen@firemail.de>
To: "Dan Cross" <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] RIP Fernando Corbató
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:00:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <713b2fb41928faf5c4d29104464cd262@firemail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W64sw-sZTD0GtC=Rfdf=K_Wk-MzPSt22V=Znma4dZzatA@mail.gmail.com>

one of the most important computer scientists passed away - a tragedy. RIP Corby.

--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
Von: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Datum: 13.07.2019 06:49:10
An: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>, COFF <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>,  "Stephen M. Jones" <smj@sdf.org>
Betreff: [TUHS] RIP Fernando Corbató

> Tom Van Vleck just passed this on the Multics mailing list. Fernando
> Corbató has passed away at 93.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/science/fernando-corbato-dead.html
>
> Clem organized the wonderful Unix 50 event at the LCM two days ago, where
>
> we saw a working 6180 front panel on display (backed by a virtual DPS-8m
>
> running Multics!).
>
> This is our heritage and our history, let us not forget where we came from.
>
>
>         - Dan C.
>



      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-13  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-13  4:49 Dan Cross
2019-07-13  9:00 ` Thomas Paulsen [this message]

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