[TUHS] In Memoriam: J.F.Ossanna

Finn O'Leary finnoleary at inventati.org
Thu Nov 28 10:43:31 AEST 2019


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 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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