28 Nov
2019
28 Nov
'19
6:43 a.m.
Wikipedia[0] lists his name as Joseph F. Ossanna, so they don't seem to
know either
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossanna
- finn
On 2019-11-28 00:06, Warner Losh wrote:
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
>