27 Nov
2017
27 Nov
'17
10:05 p.m.
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.
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
28 Nov
28 Nov
12:06 a.m.
1977 marks my entry into the world of UNIX. I've always stated there was
only one person who truly understood nroff and he was dead.
I mourn the fact that of all the UNIX greats I've met, I missed out on
Ossanna.
12:15 a.m.
I think one could argue that James Clark has a pretty good handle on
roff (having written the GNU version of nroff/troff/tbl/eqn/pic etc).
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 07:06:51PM -0500, Ron Natalie wrote:
1977 marks my entry into the world of UNIX.
I've always stated there was
only one person who truly understood nroff and he was dead.
I mourn the fact that of all the UNIX greats I've met, I missed out on
Ossanna.
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
12:14 a.m.
Indeed. As a big roff fan, not having had the chance to meet him is a
bummer, might have been fun.
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 09:05:19AM +1100, Dave Horsfall 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.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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