5 Dec
2019
5 Dec
'19
10:16 a.m.
He is a hero. His notes on early Unix made it understandable to me.
Though I have to say that Doug Comer did an equally good job with his XINU
books. Do you guys know of Doug? XINU stands for Xinu is not Unix but
he wrote, by himself, an OS and documented it in his books. I give him
credit for my desire to have code be really simple and self explanatory.
I'd kinda like to invite him to join us, what do you think?
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 10:58:42AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
We lost Dr. John Lions on this day in 1998; he was one
of my Comp Sci
lecturers (yes, I helped him write The Book, and yes, you'll find my name in
the back).
-- Dave
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