From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:22:52 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! In-Reply-To: <201709100944.v8A9iPeb024293@freefriends.org> References: <201709100944.v8A9iPeb024293@freefriends.org> Message-ID: On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, arnold at skeeve.com wrote: > I just want to say that Dennis Ritchie was "a scholar and a gentleman". > He was always warm, polite, friendly, and down to earth, both in his > correspondance with me, and in direct conversation the few times I > talked to him in person at USENIX conferences. He helped out A LOT when > I had Unix history questions for whatever books I happened to be > writing. He was at an AUUG conference in Sydney, and although I never got to shake hands with him (he had too many fans around him, and I had a home and a wife to go back to, not to mention two cats), he struck me as being the perfect gentleman. Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie, you raised a damned good son... > Not only to me, of course, but he was that way with everyone. He also > had a warm sense of humor, and was very active in the TUHS and Unix > history preservation. Agreed. > He continues to be missed. And I just wish that the Penguin/OS community would realise this; if you believe those silly sods, you'd think that they invented Unix... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."