malaise
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Thu Oct-13-11 04:30 AM
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R..I.P. Dennis Ritchie: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer |
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http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html<snip> Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog post.
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Thu Oct-13-11 04:37 AM
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1. RIP dmr, that's a shame. |
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Thu Oct-13-11 05:44 AM
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Wish that Unix had beat out mickysoft for mainstream operating systems.
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Thu Oct-13-11 05:56 AM
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Thu Oct-13-11 08:39 AM
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4. The internet is powered by his creations |
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The majority of servers powering the internet run some variant of Unix.
Heck, Steve Jobs and Apple built the OSX operating system on Unix.
My Android phone even runs a form of Unix.
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