4 Mar
2020
4 Mar
'20
8:06 p.m.
Arnold Robbins writes:
> There was no tac in V7 Unix. It was first posted
to USENET, I don't
> know by who, and picked up by Linux and *BSD.
That brought back memories, and to verify them, I checked the tac.c
source code in the latest GNU coreutils test release. It says
/* Written by Jay Lepreau (lepreau(a)cs.utah.edu)
GNU enhancements by David MacKenzie (djm(a)gnu.ai.mit.edu) */
So my memory was right that my old friend Jay was the author. Sadly,
we lost him in September 2008: see
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?page=lifest…
Jay founded the influential Flux group in advanced networking research:
http://www.flux.utah.edu/profile/lepreau
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