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+ | Mike Accetta: Responsible for symbolic links, key (later to become | ||
+ | man —k) and /dev/pty. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rick Adams: Major force behind UUNET. Wrote SLIP. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Alfred Aho: The A in awk and author of egrep and dbm library. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Eric Allman: Wrote sendmail, trek, tset and —me macros. | ||
+ | Major contributor to Ingres. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ken Arnold: Wrote curses, fortune, and lots of other games. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ozalp Babaoglu: Co—responsible with Bill Joy for virtual memory in | ||
+ | Berkeley UNIX. | ||
+ | |||
+ | W. O. Baker: Rejected request for DEC-10 by Thompson, Ritchie | ||
+ | and Ossanna, leading to development of a much | ||
+ | smaller operating system on a much smaller | ||
+ | machine. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Andreas Bechtolsheim: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Steve Bellovin: Wrote first implementation of Usenet. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Walt Bilofsky: Wrote Rand editor. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Biff: Heidi’s dog. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Irma Biren: Mailed out all the Sixth Edition UNIX tapes. | ||
+ | Bruce Borden: Worked on MH and Rand editor. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Steve (" | ||
+ | |||
+ | Steve Bunch: Co-wrote first Arpanet (N CP) code for UNIX. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Brent Byer: Added split I/D-space to support PDP—11/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ron Cain: Wrote Small C, first public-domain C compiler. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rudd Canaday: Co-designer of UNIX file system with Dennis and | ||
+ | Ken. Created PWB group. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Lorinda Cherry: Writer of the Writer’s Workbench (diction, style, | ||
+ | etc.), be, and dc. Wrote eqn with bwk. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Greg Chesson: Past drummer for Woody Herman Band, developer | ||
+ | of mpx files (forerunner to select () ), original uucp | ||
+ | packet driver, Datakit, line disciplines and adaptive | ||
+ | control in dh driver. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Douglas Comer: Wrote Xinu. Responsible for first UNIX X.25 implementation with Paul McNabb and System V cron | ||
+ | with Bob Brown and Keith Williamson. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dave Crocker: Wrote MMDF, MS. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bill Croft: Wrote first UNIX intemetworking implementation | ||
+ | (using PDP-11s). | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ted Dolotta: Responsible for —m macros. First director of USG. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Robert Elz: Wrote BSD quotas and autoconfiguration. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Robert Fabry: Original faculty advisor to Berkeley CSRG who got | ||
+ | DARPA funding for project. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Stu (”sif" | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mel Ferentz: Hosted first UNIX user group meeting. Founded | ||
+ | UNIX News (a.k.a. , | ||
+ | |||
+ | David Fiedler: Founded or edited more UNIX and C magazines | ||
+ | and newsletters than anyone else, including The | ||
+ | UNIX Software List, The C List, Unique, UNIX | ||
+ | Review, The C Journal, and The C Users Journal. | ||
+ | |||
+ | John Foderero: Wrote Franz Lisp. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Herb Gellis: Wrote xargs. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Jim Gettys: Co-responsible for X Window System. | ||
+ | |||
+ | George Goble: Did first influential UNIX port to an asymmetric | ||
+ | multiprocessor (two VAX—l l/780s). | ||
+ | |||
+ | James Gosling: Wrote UNIX emacs. Co-authored NeWS with | ||
+ | David Rosenthal. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Gary Grossman: Co—wrote first Arpanet (NCP) code for UNIX. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rob Gurwitz: Wrote BBN’s TCP/IP implementation which later | ||
+ | became part of Berkeley distribution. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Doug Gwyn: Wrote BRL’s System V emulation for BSD. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Teus Hagen: Established first uucp connections between US. | ||
+ | (decvax), Europe (mcvax) and many other countries. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dick Haight: Wrote find, cpio, expr. Added named variables to | ||
+ | shell. Major contributor to PWB. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Chuck Haley: Wrote tar. Co—implementor of early versions of ex | ||
+ | and Pascal shell with Bill Joy. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dennis Hall: Co-implemented first Virtual Operating System | ||
+ | while at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Founded | ||
+ | Software Tools User Group. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Robert Henry: Wrote error. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Steve Holmgren: Co-wrote first Arpanet (N CP) code for UNIX. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Peter Honeyman: The Honey in Honey DanBer uucp. Wrote | ||
+ | pathalias. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mark Horton: Wrote curses, terminfo and did substantial work | ||
+ | on uucp mapping project and Usenet. g | ||
+ | |||
+ | Stephen (" | ||
+ | early versions of spell. Assisted Dennis in one of | ||
+ | first ports of UNIX (to Interdata 8/32). | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bill (”wnj" | ||
+ | virtual memory support, networking, Pascal, vi, | ||
+ | ash and termcap. Co—founder of Sun Microsystems. Designed NFS. Received 1986 ACM Grace | ||
+ | Murray Hopper Award for work on Berkeley | ||
+ | UNIX. | ||
+ | |||
+ | David Kashtan: Wrote Eunice. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Howard Katseff: Wrote sdb and last. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Lou Katz: First president of USENIX. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Brian (”bwk" | ||
+ | people write C. Wrote ratfor, ditroff, eqn and | ||
+ | pic. Shared co-responsibility for Version 7. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Andrew Koenig: Wrote varargs (a.k.a. stdargs). | ||
+ | |||
+ | David Korn: Wrote ksh. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ted Kowalski: Responsible for modern fsck. ' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bob Kridle: Founded Mt. Xinu. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Jim Kulp: Developed original version of job control and csh | ||
+ | directory stacks. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Peter Langston: Responsible for early USENIX g0 tournaments. | ||
+ | His friends Eedie and Eddie can often be reached | ||
+ | at (201) 644-2332. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Sam Leffler: Wrote tip with Bill Shannon. Major force behind | ||
+ | 4.2BSD and Berkeley TCP. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mike Lesk: Wrote lex, tbl, refer, —ms macros, uucp and | ||
+ | portable C library, precursor to stdio. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Don Libes: Co—author of Life With UNIX. Little else of note. | ||
+ | |||
+ | John Lions: Wrote first book describing and documenting the | ||
+ | UNIX system. Often misspelled as " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Torn London: Co—responsible for 32V, first VAX version of UNIX. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Brian Lucas: Co-creator of first distributed UNIX file system (4 | ||
+ | PDP—11s served by a PDP—10). | ||
+ | |||
+ | Heinz Lycklama: Wrote MERT with Doug Bayer. Wrote LSX, first | ||
+ | UNIX for a microprocessor (LSI-11). Responsible | ||
+ | for much early work on UNIX standards including | ||
+ | first (/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Tom Lyon: Did one of first UNIX ports (to VM/370). | ||
+ | |||
+ | Joe Maranzano: Responsible for USG. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bob Marsh: Founder and first president of /usr/group. Founded | ||
+ | Onyx, first vendor of non—PDP UNIX systems and | ||
+ | microprocessor-based UNIX systems. | ||
+ | |||
+ | John Mashey: Wrote Mashey shell, which later merged into | ||
+ | Bourne shell. Major contributor to PWB. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Doug McIlroy: Suggested idea of pipes. Wrote tmg. Wrote diff | ||
+ | and spell. Research in speech processing on | ||
+ | UNIX led to grep. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Kirk McKusick: Wrote Berkeley Fast File System and portable | ||
+ | directory access routines. Prime force behind | ||
+ | 4.3BSD. Wrote gprof (with Peter Kessler). | ||
+ | |||
+ | Lee McMahon: Wrote sed. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Al McPherson: Wrote fsdb. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Richard Miller: Did one of first UNIX ports (to Interdata 7/32). | ||
+ | |||
+ | Robert Morris: Wrote dc and be with Lorinda Cherry. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bill Munson: Responsible for Ultrix. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mike Muus: Responsible for JHU/BRL UNIX. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Alan Nemeth: Responsible for BBN’s C machine, first microcoded | ||
+ | implementation of UNIX. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Landon Noll: Founder and judge (with Larry Bassel) of International Obfuscated C Code Contest. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dan Nowitz: The Dan in Honey DanBer. Substantial contribu— | ||
+ | tions to original uucp. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Joseph Ossanna: Responsible for troff. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rob Pike: Co—developer of Blit bitmapped terminal. | ||
+ | |||
+ | P. J. Plauger: Wrote first commercial C compiler. Started White— | ||
+ | smiths, Ltd. Responsible for Idris. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dave Presotto: Wrote vgrind with Bill Joy. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rick Rashid: Responsible for Mach. Designed CMU interpro— | ||
+ | cess communication. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Brian (" | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bill Reeves: Wrote vcat with Tom Duff and Mike Tilson. | ||
+ | |||
+ | John Reiser: Co—responsible for 32V, first VAX version of UNIX. ' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dennis (" | ||
+ | he is undoubtedly half the reason for UNIX. Largely responsible for C language. For work on UNIX with Thompson, received many prestigious awards | ||
+ | including 1982 IEEE Emmanuel Piore award and | ||
+ | 1983 ACM Turing Award. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Marc Rochkind: Wrote SCCS, and his. Major contributor to PWB. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rob Rosenthal: Co-creator of first distributed UNIX file system. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Steve Schaefer: Responsible for CPATH, LPATH, and MPATH. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Deborah Scherrer: Co-implemented first Virtual Operating System | ||
+ | while at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Founded | ||
+ | Software Tools User Group. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Eric Schienbrood: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Eric Schmidt: Wrote BerkNet. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Jeff Schriebman: Founded Unisoft. | ||
+ | |||
+ | John Seamons: Did first port of UNIX to SUN board. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Donn Seeley: Did substantial work on f77, Ritchie compiler and | ||
+ | pcc. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bill Shannon: Implemented first overlayed kernel for the PDP-11 | ||
+ | with Bill Jolitz. Wrote early version of BSD printer spooler. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dick Shapazian: Responsible for designing early UNIX licensing | ||
+ | structure. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Kurt Shoens: Wrote Berkeley Mail (a.k.a. mailx), fmt. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Richard (" | ||
+ | Foundation. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Armando (" | ||
+ | the existence of UNIX. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bjarne Stroustrup: Wrote C++. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Joe Sventek: Co-implemented first Virtual Operating System | ||
+ | while at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Founded | ||
+ | Software Tools User Group. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rebecca Thomas: Co—authored first commercial book about UNIX | ||
+ | with Jean Yates. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ken (" | ||
+ | on UNIX with Dennis, received many prestigious | ||
+ | awards including the 1982 IEEE Emmanuel Piore | ||
+ | award and the 1983 ACM Turing Award. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Walter Tichy: Wrote RCS. | ||
+ | |||
+ | David Tilbrook: Founded HCR. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Michael Toy: Author of two great games, rogue and | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | |||
+ | Michael Ubell: Wrote first history prototype, later adapted into csh. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Larry Wall: Author of rn, patch, and perl. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Larry Wehr: Responsible for modern named pipes. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Peter Weinberger: The W in awk. Wrote 1comp. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Peter Weiner: Obtained first commercial UNIX license for Rand | ||
+ | Corp. Founded Interactive Systems Corp. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Lauren Weinstein: Responsible for Stargate. | ||
+ | |||
+ | David Willcox: Wrote indent. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Chris Van Wyk: Wrote ideal. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dave Yost: Made substantial contributions to Rand editor and | ||
+ | MH. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Walter Zintz: Created Uni—Ops user group. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Steve Zucker: Created early version of named pipes. | ||
+ | |||
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