28 Nov
2019
28 Nov
'19
6:06 a.m.
What do the J and F stand for?
Warner
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 1:54 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)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