From: Finn O'Leary <finnoleary@inventati.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: J.F.Ossanna
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:43:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c99256a6c908b079aed4ef9e94ece518@inventati.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrTrjqw4-C9UOezgB6jqGD9LMOW1SwYpu+ADMnz4naGdQ@mail.gmail.com>
Wikipedia[0] lists his name as Joseph F. Ossanna, so they don't seem to
know either
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossanna
- finn
On 2019-11-28 00:06, Warner Losh wrote:
> What do the J and F stand for?
>
> Warner
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 1:54 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> He also accomplished a lot more, too much to summarise here.
>>
>> -- Dave
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-28 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-27 20:53 Dave Horsfall
2019-11-28 0:06 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-28 0:43 ` Finn O'Leary [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-11-28 13:09 Noel Chiappa
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
2018-11-28 5:22 ` Fabio Scotoni
2018-11-28 9:20 ` Donald ODona
2018-11-29 3:54 ` Dave Horsfall
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