RIP DMR - a postscript

2011-12-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
In case it hadn't occurred to anyone to look back: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/ Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth Associates

Re: RIP dmr

2011-10-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Lynda wrote: Dennis was one of the good ones. A kind and generous person, who changed all our worlds. Indeed. I consider the KR C book as the pinnacle of how a book like that should be written. Every page, every sentence contains a multitude of information and there is no redundancy. The C

Re: RIP dmr

2011-10-13 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
He will be sadly missed. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Fred Heutte aoxomo...@sunlightdata.com wrote: The UNIX Time-Sharing System http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj57-6-1905.pdf UNIX Time-Sharing System: A Retrospective

Re: RIP dmr

2011-10-13 Thread Rob Thomas
I started with UNIX back when it arrived at school, on reel to reel tapes, and it was loaded on to the PDP 11/45. I learned to write C from the original KR (which I still have, of course). Same here! Dennis was one of the good ones. A kind and generous person, who changed all our worlds.

Re: RIP dmr

2011-10-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Fred Heutte aoxomo...@sunlightdata.com The UNIX Time-Sharing System http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj57-6-1905.pdf UNIX Time-Sharing System: A Retrospective http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj57-6-1947.pdf

RIP dmr

2011-10-12 Thread Jay Ashworth
Oh, hell: http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth

Re: RIP dmr

2011-10-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html A longer obituary thread for him than for steve jobs I think.  He deserves it. [and gmail wants me to consider

Re: RIP dmr

2011-10-12 Thread Lynda
I started with UNIX back when it arrived at school, on reel to reel tapes, and it was loaded on to the PDP 11/45. I learned to write C from the original KR (which I still have, of course). Dennis was one of the good ones. A kind and generous person, who changed all our worlds. Rest In Peace