[ih] DMR has left the building...

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Oct 13 21:10:23 PDT 2011


Just saw this, which I forward here for those, like me, who hadn't heard:

 Dennis Ritchie, computer-programming pioneer, dies
 http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111013/D9QBJ8F02.html

As someone who had a Unix long enough ago that it still had /sys/ken and
/sys/dmr directories, I am mildly embarrassed to admit that I thought the
names stood for 'kernel' and 'direct memory <something>' - only later did
the penny drop!

One of the Greats....

    Noel



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