[TUHS] RIP J.F.Ossanna

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Mon Nov 28 08:28:55 AEST 2016


I've always morned that he died so early.  I would have liked to talk 
to him, I love troff to this day.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 09:15:00AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> We lost J.F.Ossanna 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 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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