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====== Doug McIlroy ====== | ====== Doug McIlroy ====== |
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[[:publications:life_with_unix|Life with Unix]] says: Suggested idea of pipes. Wrote tmg. Wrote diff | [[:publications:life_with_unix|Life with Unix]] says: Suggested idea of pipes. Wrote tmg. Wrote diff and spell. Research in speech processing on UNIX led to grep. |
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UNIX led to grep. | [[https://archive.org/details/a_research_unix_reader|A Research Unix Reader]] says: Doug (M. Douglas) Mcllroy exercised the right of a department head to muscle in on the original two-user PDP-7 system. Later he contributed an eclectic bag of utilities: tmg for compiler writing, speak for reading text aloud, diff, and join. He also collected dictionaries and made tools to use them: look (v7, after a model by Ossanna), diet (v8), and spell (v7). |
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