Re: [nzlug] Dennis Ritchie Septem ber 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011

Cliff Pratt <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:33:50 +1300

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On 18/10/11 06:33, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
> 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.
>
"Mainframe centric"?

Cheers,

Cliff

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