14 Sep
2017
14 Sep
'17
1:22 a.m.
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
I just want to say that Dennis Ritchie was "a
scholar and a gentleman".
He was always warm, polite, friendly, and down to earth, both in his
correspondance with me, and in direct conversation the few times I
talked to him in person at USENIX conferences. He helped out A LOT when
I had Unix history questions for whatever books I happened to be
writing.
He was at an AUUG conference in Sydney, and although I never got to shake
hands with him (he had too many fans around him, and I had a home and a
wife to go back to, not to mention two cats), he struck me as being the
perfect gentleman. Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie, you raised a damned good son...
Not only to me, of course, but he was that way with
everyone. He also
had a warm sense of humor, and was very active in the TUHS and Unix
history preservation.
Agreed.
He continues to be missed.
And I just wish that the Penguin/OS community would realise this; if you
believe those silly sods, you'd think that they invented Unix...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."