[TUHS] In Memoriam: J.F.Ossanna

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Nov 28 10:06:18 AEST 2019


What do the J and F stand for?

Warner

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 1:54 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at 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
>
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