22 Sep
2023
22 Sep
'23
7:14 a.m.
This is perhaps silly, but I really wanted to meet Joe Ossanna because
of troff. It was not meant to be. My dad told me you aren't dead until
they stop talking about you. Good to see that Joe is still with us.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 09:08:13PM -0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
I omitted one crucial fact from my post about Joe
Ossanna's influence
on the TTY 37. That happened not in connection with Unix, but with
Multics. When Unix came on the scene, model 37 was already in
production.
Doug
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