Re: Dennis Ritchie September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011
Ryan McCoskrie <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:33:48 +1300
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:11:42 Bruce Clement wrote: > I only heard about this today, but Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C > programming language & co-inventor of the Unix operating system has died. > > His influence on today's operating software is large. > Before hedied I was hoping that there might be a sudden upsurge of interest around his post-unix OS Plan9 "From user space". From what I recall Plan9 does away with the need for a super user, makes the file system layout user-specific and is generally less main-frame centric than Unix. _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug