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- | [[https://archive.org/details/a_research_unix_reader|A Research Unix Reader]] says: Norman Wilson shares with Ritchie the honors of reigning guru. He has been instrumental in porting v8 to a Cray and in rationalizing system configuration procedures. Waging a personal battle against entropy, Wilson rectified countless infelicities, gli/.ches, and blunders in the software and the manual, always making things shorter and simpler as he did so. | + | [[https://archive.org/details/a_research_unix_reader|A Research Unix Reader]] says: Norman Wilson shares with Ritchie the honors of reigning guru. He has been instrumental in porting v8 to a Cray and in rationalizing system configuration procedures. Waging a personal battle against entropy, Wilson rectified countless infelicities, glitches, and blunders in the software and the manual, always making things shorter and simpler as he did so. |