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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html
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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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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 04:37 AM
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1. RIP dmr, that's a shame.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 05:44 AM
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2. Brilliant mind
Wish that Unix had beat out mickysoft for mainstream operating systems.
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HipChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 05:56 AM
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3. Ditto
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 08:39 AM
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4. The internet is powered by his creations
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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