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Tom Killian

A Research Unix Reader says: Tom (Thomas J.) Killian made a font editor jf and programs to save and print bitmap images (blitblt, thinkbli) that led in turn to can, a comprehensive suite of laser-printer software built from the ROM up. For the UNIX system itself, Killian invented the important /proc file system that contains core images of all running processes.

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