https://wiki.tuhs.org/ 2026-04-15T10:49:45+00:00 https://wiki.tuhs.org/ https://wiki.tuhs.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:al_mcpherson&rev=1451373639&do=diff Al McPherson Life with Unix says: Wrote fsdb. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:alan_nemeth&rev=1451373639&do=diff Alan Nemeth Life with Unix says: Responsible for BBN’s C machine, first microcoded implementation of UNIX. text/html 2015-12-31T03:17:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:alfred_aho&rev=1451531838&do=diff Alfred Aho Life with Unix says: The A in awk and author of egrep and dbm library. A Research Unix Reader says: Al (Alfred V.) Aho's unstintingly given insight into language theory and algorithms shows up in programs by many people such as yacc, lex, cc, the Writer's Workbench, and the screen editor sam, as well as in his own awk, egrep, and fgrep. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:andreas_bechtolsheim&rev=1451373639&do=diff Andreas Bechtolsheim Life with Unix says: Developed initial design for SUN board. text/html 2015-12-31T04:32:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:andrew_hume&rev=1451536344&do=diff Andrew Hume A Research Unix Reader says: Andrew G. Hume wrote proof to put troff on your screen (v8, begun by Locanthi), parts of the UNIX Circuit Design System (v9), mk to supplant make (v9), and a remote backup service (v9). text/html 2015-12-31T04:12:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:andrew_koenig&rev=1451535157&do=diff Andrew Koenig Life with Unix says: Wrote varargs (a.k.a. stdargs). A Research Unix Reader says: Andy (Andrew R.) Koenig conceived and built asd, the automatic software distribution system that keeps v9 current across about 50 different computers, and snocone, a preprocessor to sugar the syntax of Snobol into a structured language. text/html 2019-12-01T02:57:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:armando_stettner&rev=1575169069&do=diff Armando ("aps") Stettner Life with Unix says: Spent several years getting DEC to acknowledge the existence of UNIX. For several years owned New Hampshire automobile license plate UNIX. text/html 2015-12-31T04:22:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:bart_locanthi&rev=1451535777&do=diff Bart Locanthi A Research Unix Reader says: Bart N. Locanthi designed the bitmapped terminal known variously as “jerq,” “Blit,” and Teletype 5620. He programmed it, too: from graphic primitives, such as the crucial bitblt, up to a multiterminal maze war game. text/html 2015-12-31T03:20:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:berkley_tague&rev=1451532010&do=diff Berkley Tague A Research Unix Reader says: By the time of v4 the role of provider to the by then sizable clientele within Bell Labs had been assumed by Berk (Berkley A.) Tague and his UNIX Support Group, thereby guaranteeing the future of the system. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:biff&rev=1451373639&do=diff Biff Life with Unix says: Heidi’s dog. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:bill_croft&rev=1451373639&do=diff Bill Croft Life with Unix says: Wrote first UNIX intemetworking implementation (using PDP-11s). text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:bill_joy&rev=1451373639&do=diff Bill (”wnj") Joy Life with Unix says: Wrote much of original Berkeley release including 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. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:bill_munson&rev=1451373639&do=diff Bill Munson Life with Unix says: Responsible for Ultrix. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:bill_reeves&rev=1451373639&do=diff Bill Reeves Life with Unix says: Wrote vcat with Tom Duff and Mike Tilson. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:bill_shannon&rev=1451373639&do=diff Bill Shannon Life with Unix says: Implemented first overlayed kernel for the PDP-11 with Bill Jolitz. Wrote early version of BSD printer spooler. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:bjarne_stroustrup&rev=1451373639&do=diff Bjarne Stroustrup Life with Unix says: Wrote C++. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:bob_kridle&rev=1451373639&do=diff Bob Kridle Life with Unix says: Founded Mt. Xinu. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:bob_marsh&rev=1451373639&do=diff Bob Marsh Life with Unix says: Founder and first president of /usr/group. Founded Onyx, first vendor of non—PDP UNIX systems and microprocessor-based UNIX systems. text/html 2015-12-29T07:26:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:brent_byer&rev=1451373989&do=diff Brent Byer Life with Unix says: Added split I/D-space to support PDP-11/45. text/html 2015-12-31T04:28:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:brian_kernighan&rev=1451536121&do=diff Brian (”bwk") Kernighan Life with Unix says: The K in K&R and awk. Co—authored The C Programming Language which set style for how most people write C. Wrote ratfor, ditroff, eqn and pic. Shared co-responsibility for Version 7. A Research Unix Reader says: Brian W. Kernighan, expositor par excellence, coined the name UNIX, popularized the tools philosophy [6], wrote the best tutorials, and became a prolific inventor of specialized text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:brian_lucas&rev=1451373639&do=diff Brian Lucas Life with Unix says: Co-creator of first distributed UNIX file system (4 PDP—11s served by a PDP—10). text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:brian_redman&rev=1451373639&do=diff Brian ("ber") Redman Life with Unix says: The Ber of Honey DanBer. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:chris_wyk&rev=1451373639&do=diff Chris Van Wyk Life with Unix says: Wrote ideal. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:chuck_haley&rev=1451373639&do=diff Chuck Haley Life with Unix says: Wrote tar. Co—implementor of early versions of ex and Pascal shell with Bill Joy. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:dan_nowitz&rev=1451373639&do=diff Dan Nowitz Life with Unix says: The Dan in Honey DanBer. Substantial contribu— tions to original uucp. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:dave_crocker&rev=1451373639&do=diff Dave Crocker Life with Unix says: Wrote MMDF, MS. text/html 2015-12-31T04:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:dave_presotto&rev=1451536244&do=diff Dave Presotto Life with Unix says: Wrote vgrind with Bill Joy. A Research Unix Reader says: Dave (David L.) Presotto tamed networks. His upas brought some order to a Babel of mail addresses and his ipc primitives provided a common basis for communication and remote file access via Internet, Ethernet, and Datakit. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:dave_yost&rev=1451373639&do=diff Dave Yost Life with Unix says: Made substantial contributions to Rand editor and MH. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:david_fiedler&rev=1451373639&do=diff David Fiedler Life with Unix says: 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. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:david_kashtan&rev=1451373639&do=diff David Kashtan Life with Unix says: Wrote Eunice. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:david_korn&rev=1451373639&do=diff David Korn Life with Unix says: Wrote ksh. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:david_tilbrook&rev=1451373639&do=diff David Tilbrook Life with Unix says: Founded HCR. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:david_willcox&rev=1451373639&do=diff David Willcox Life with Unix says: Wrote indent. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:deborah_scherrer&rev=1451373639&do=diff Deborah Scherrer Life with Unix says: Co-implemented first Virtual Operating System while at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Founded Software Tools User Group. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:dennis_hall&rev=1451373639&do=diff Dennis Hall Life with Unix says: Co-implemented first Virtual Operating System while at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Founded Software Tools User Group. text/html 2015-12-31T03:01:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:dennis_ritchie&rev=1451530914&do=diff Dennis ("dmr") Ritchie Life with Unix says: While he often denies doing as much as Thompson, 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. text/html 2022-05-13T10:09:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:dick_haight&rev=1652436579&do=diff Dick Haight Life with Unix says: Wrote find, cpio, expr. Added named variables to shell. Major contributor to PWB. A Research Unix Reader says: Joe (Joseph F.) Maranzano of the USG and Dick (Richard C.) Haight of PWB became de-facto adjunct members of the research group. Haight contributed find, cpio, and expr, all in v7. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:dick_shapazian&rev=1451373639&do=diff Dick Shapazian Life with Unix says: Responsible for designing early UNIX licensing structure. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:don_libes&rev=1451373639&do=diff Don Libes Life with Unix says: Co—author of Life With UNIX. Little else of note. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:donn_seeley&rev=1451373639&do=diff Donn Seeley Life with Unix says: Did substantial work on f77, Ritchie compiler and pcc. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:doug_gwyn&rev=1451373639&do=diff Doug Gwyn Life with Unix says: Wrote BRL’s System V emulation for BSD. text/html 2015-12-31T03:05:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:doug_mcilroy&rev=1451531118&do=diff Doug McIlroy Life with Unix says: Suggested idea of pipes. Wrote tmg. Wrote diff and spell. Research in speech processing on UNIX led to grep. 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 b… text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:douglas_comer&rev=1451373639&do=diff Douglas Comer Life with Unix says: Wrote Xinu. Responsible for first UNIX X.25 implementation with Paul McNabb and System V cron with Bob Brown and Keith Williamson. text/html 2015-12-31T04:19:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:ed_sitar&rev=1451535546&do=diff Ed Sitar A Research Unix Reader says: Ed (Edward J.) Sitar, with devotion worthy of Ossanna, saw to it that the hardware actually worked, keeping twenty machines housed and powered, and suppliers on their mettle. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:eric_allman&rev=1451373639&do=diff Eric Allman Life with Unix says: Wrote sendmail, trek, tset and —me macros. Major contributor to Ingres. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:eric_schienbrood&rev=1451373639&do=diff Eric Schienbrood Life with Unix says: Wrote more. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:eric_schmidt&rev=1451373639&do=diff Eric Schmidt Life with Unix says: Wrote BerkNet. text/html 2015-12-31T04:17:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:fred_grampp&rev=1451535427&do=diff Fred Grampp A Research Unix Reader says: Fred (Frederick T.) Grampp's unrivaled practical experience in computer security shows up in subtle countermeasures now routinely used in our systems. A thorough security audit program of his ultimately became the administators' tool quest. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:gary_grossman&rev=1451373639&do=diff Gary Grossman Life with Unix says: Co—wrote first Arpanet (NCP) code for UNIX. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:george_goble&rev=1451373639&do=diff George Goble Life with Unix says: Did first influential UNIX port to an asymmetric multiprocessor (two VAX—l l/780s). text/html 2015-12-31T03:18:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:greg_chesson&rev=1451531919&do=diff Greg Chesson Life with Unix says: 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. A Research Unix Reader says: Greg (Gregory L.) Chesson pursued all aspects of computer-to-computer communication: multiplexing with mpx (v7), flow-controlled channels with con (v7) and dcon, and protocols, including one used by uucp. The first kernel- and user-level software for Datakit… text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:heinz_lycklama&rev=1451373639&do=diff Heinz Lycklama Life with Unix says: Wrote MERT with Doug Bayer. Wrote LSX, first UNIX for a microprocessor (LSI-11). Responsible for much early work on UNIX standards including first (/usr/group) UNIX standard. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:herb_gellis&rev=1451373639&do=diff Herb Gellis Life with Unix says: Wrote xargs. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:howard_katseff&rev=1451373639&do=diff Howard Katseff Life with Unix says: Wrote sdb and last. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:irma_biren&rev=1451373639&do=diff Irma Biren Life with Unix says: Mailed out all the Sixth Edition UNIX tapes. Bruce Borden: Worked on MH and Rand editor. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:james_gosling&rev=1451373639&do=diff James Gosling Life with Unix says: Wrote UNIX emacs. Co-authored NeWS with David Rosenthal. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:jeff_schriebman&rev=1451373639&do=diff Jeff Schriebman Life with Unix says: Founded Unisoft. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:jim_gettys&rev=1451373639&do=diff Jim Gettys Life with Unix says: Co-responsible for X Window System. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:jim_kulp&rev=1451373639&do=diff Jim Kulp Life with Unix says: Developed original version of job control and csh directory stacks. text/html 2015-12-31T03:16:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:joe_condon&rev=1451531793&do=diff Joe Condon A Research Unix Reader says: Joe (Joseph H.) Condon, physicist and circuit designer extraordinaire, although not usually listed as an “author” of UNIX, is an indispensable presence among the group. He wrote much of the Unix Circuit Design System, including sophisticated wire-routing algorithms. He designed superfast specialized machines, including the chess machine Belle (with Thompson), domesticated real telephone switches to our laboratory environment for the experiments of McMahon… text/html 2015-12-31T03:21:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:joe_maranzano&rev=1451532073&do=diff Joe Maranzano Life with Unix says: Responsible for USG. A Research Unix Reader says: Joe (Joseph F.) Maranzano of the USG and Dick (Richard C.) Haight of PWB became de-facto adjunct members of the research group. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:joe_sventek&rev=1451373639&do=diff Joe Sventek Life with Unix says: Co-implemented first Virtual Operating System while at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Founded Software Tools User Group. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:john_foderero&rev=1451373639&do=diff John Foderero Life with Unix says: Wrote Franz Lisp. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:john_lions&rev=1451373639&do=diff John Lions Life with Unix says: Wrote first book describing and documenting the UNIX system. Often misspelled as “Lyons.” text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:john_mashey&rev=1451373639&do=diff John Mashey Life with Unix says: Wrote Mashey shell, which later merged into Bourne shell. Major contributor to PWB. text/html 2015-12-31T04:20:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:john_reiser&rev=1451535652&do=diff John Reiser Life with Unix says: Co—responsible for 32V, first VAX version of UNIX. ' A Research Unix Reader says: Tom (Thomas B.) London and John F. Reiser ported v7 to the VAX and introduced paging. Their V32 system, as filtered through Berkeley, became the progenitor of almost all research UNIX systems. Reiser later contributed a peerless compile-and-execute bitblt for the Teletype 5620. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:john_seamons&rev=1451373639&do=diff John Seamons Life with Unix says: Did first port of UNIX to SUN board. text/html 2022-06-30T16:40:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:joseph_ossanna&rev=1656607244&do=diff Joseph Ossanna Life with Unix says: Responsible for troff. A Research Unix Reader says:Joe (Joseph F.) Ossanna, with the instincts of a motor pool sergeant, equipped our first lab and attracted the first outside users. Joe's nroff and troff indelibly shaped UNIX word processing and typesetting. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:ken_arnold&rev=1451373639&do=diff Ken Arnold Life with Unix says: Wrote curses, fortune, and lots of other games. text/html 2015-12-31T03:00:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:ken_thompson&rev=1451530846&do=diff Ken ("ken") Thompson Life with Unix says: The person to blame for inventing UNIX. For work on UNIX with Dennis, received many prestigious awards including the 1982 IEEE Emmanuel Piore award and the 1983 ACM Turing Award. A Research Unix Reader says: Ken Thompson began the construction from the ground up based on a file system model worked out with Ritchie and Rudd H. Canaday. He made processors for B, bas, and Fortran besides the operating system proper, and personally installed customized ve… text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:kirk_mckusick&rev=1451373639&do=diff Kirk McKusick Life with Unix says: Wrote Berkeley Fast File System and portable directory access routines. Prime force behind 4.3BSD. Wrote gprof (with Peter Kessler). text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:kurt_shoens&rev=1451373639&do=diff Kurt Shoens Life with Unix says: Wrote Berkeley Mail (a.k.a. mailx), fmt. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:landon_noll&rev=1451373639&do=diff Landon Noll Life with Unix says: Founder and judge (with Larry Bassel) of International Obfuscated C Code Contest. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:larry_wall&rev=1451373639&do=diff Larry Wall Life with Unix says: Author of rn, patch, and perl. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:larry_wehr&rev=1451373639&do=diff Larry Wehr Life with Unix says: Responsible for modern named pipes. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:lauren_weinstein&rev=1451373639&do=diff Lauren Weinstein Life with Unix says: Responsible for Stargate. text/html 2015-12-31T03:08:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:lee_mcmahon&rev=1451531295&do=diff Lee McMahon Life with Unix says: Wrote sed. A Research Unix Reader says: Lee E. McMahon's linguistic insight fostered the characteristic text-processing — as distinct from text-formatting — capabilities of the system. He wrote comm. qsort, sed, the current grep. and the concordance-builders index for English and cref for C. After an early fling with cu and an influential laboratory switching system done with Condon, Morris, Thompson, Chuck (Charles B.) Haley and Cherry, Lee became the prime s… text/html 2015-12-31T03:06:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:lorinda_cherry&rev=1451531167&do=diff Lorinda Cherry Life with Unix says: Writer of the Writer’s Workbench (diction, style, etc.), be, and dc. Wrote eqn with bwk. A Research Unix Reader says: Lorinda L. Cherry collaborated with Morris on dc-bc and typo. Always fascinated by text processing, Lorinda initiated eqn and invented parts, an approximate parser that was exploited in the celebrated Writer's Workbench®, ww6(v8). text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:lou_katz&rev=1451373639&do=diff Lou Katz Life with Unix says: First president of USENIX. text/html 2015-12-31T04:26:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:luca_cardelli&rev=1451535975&do=diff Luca Cardelli A Research Unix Reader says: Luca Cardelli contributed an icon builder, annoying crabs that devour screen images, and the catchy vismon that posts icons of the senders of incoming mail. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:marc_rochkind&rev=1451373639&do=diff Marc Rochkind Life with Unix says: Wrote SCCS, and his. Major contributor to PWB. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:mark_horton&rev=1451373639&do=diff Mark Horton Life with Unix says: Wrote curses, terminfo and did substantial work on uucp mapping project and Usenet. g text/html 2015-12-31T04:24:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:mark_manasse&rev=1451535897&do=diff Mark S. Manasse A Research Unix Reader says: The Blit terminal attracted Mark S. Manasse who (with Pike) invented lens, an algorithmically ingenious bitmap magnifier, and tek4014, a disarmingly faithful simulator of Tektronix terminals. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:mel_ferentz&rev=1451373639&do=diff Mel Ferentz Life with Unix says: Hosted first UNIX user group meeting. Founded UNIX News (a.k.a. ,‘login:). text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:michael_toy&rev=1451373639&do=diff Michael Toy Life with Unix says: Author of two great games, rogue and /etc/shutdown. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:michael_ubell&rev=1451373639&do=diff Michael Ubell Life with Unix says: Wrote first history prototype, later adapted into csh. text/html 2015-12-31T20:39:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:mike_accetta&rev=1451594390&do=diff Mike Accetta Clem Cole says: Mike was a CMU Mach 2.x implementer which was a splice into BSD, where he added symbolic links which Dennis had created in V8. He also created the CMU command, key (later to become man —k) and a fresh implementation of the pseudo terminal subsystem originally from Rand. text/html 2015-12-31T03:10:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:mike_lesk&rev=1451531450&do=diff Mike Lesk Life with Unix says: Wrote lex, tbl, refer, —ms macros, uucp and portable C library, precursor to stdio. A Research Unix Reader says: Mike (Michael E.) Lesk, with a prescient market instinct, made text formatting accessible to the masses with the generic macros — ms, which were to troff what a compiler is to assembly language. He rounded out -ms with the preprocessors tbl for typesetting tables and refer for bibliographies. He also made the lex generator of lexical analyzers. Eager t… text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:mike_muus&rev=1451373639&do=diff Mike Muus Life with Unix says: Responsible for JHU/BRL UNIX. text/html 2015-12-31T04:46:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:norman_wilson&rev=1451537160&do=diff Norman Wilson 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. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:ozalp_babaoglu&rev=1451373639&do=diff Ozalp Babaoglu Life with Unix says: Co—responsible with Bill Joy for virtual memory in Berkeley UNIX. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:peter_honeyman&rev=1451373639&do=diff Peter Honeyman Life with Unix says: The Honey in Honey DanBer uucp. Wrote pathalias. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:peter_langston&rev=1451373639&do=diff Peter Langston Life with Unix says: Responsible for early USENIX g0 tournaments. His friends Eedie and Eddie can often be reached at (201) 644-2332. text/html 2015-12-31T03:12:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:peter_weinberger&rev=1451531566&do=diff Peter Weinberger Life with Unix says: The W in awk. Wrote 1comp. A Research Unix Reader says: Peter J. Weinberger has moved effortlessly among number theory, databases, languages, and networking. Weinberger boasts the middle initial of awk, the 10 library for pi ', and a famous visage (see FACED, page 14). In v8 and v9 appeared an unbounded precision arithmetic package mp, a fast factoring program qfactor, a B-tree library cbt, and a new code generator for C, all Peter's work. Above all, his n… text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:peter_weiner&rev=1451373639&do=diff Peter Weiner Life with Unix says: Obtained first commercial UNIX license for Rand Corp. Founded Interactive Systems Corp. text/html 2019-12-01T02:52:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:pj_plauger&rev=1575168770&do=diff P. J. Plauger Life with Unix says: Wrote first commercial C compiler. Started Whitesmiths, Ltd. Responsible for Idris. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:rebecca_thomas&rev=1451373639&do=diff Rebecca Thomas Life with Unix says: Co—authored first commercial book about UNIX with Jean Yates. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:richard_miller&rev=1451373639&do=diff Richard Miller Life with Unix says: Did one of first UNIX ports (to Interdata 7/32). text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:richard_stallman&rev=1451373639&do=diff Richard ("rms") Stallman Life with Unix says: Responsible for emacs, GNU and Free Software Foundation. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:rick_adams&rev=1451373639&do=diff Rick Adams Life with Unix says: Major force behind UUNET. Wrote SLIP. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:rick_rashid&rev=1451373639&do=diff Rick Rashid Life with Unix says: Responsible for Mach. Designed CMU interpro— cess communication. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:rob_gurwitz&rev=1451373639&do=diff Rob Gurwitz Life with Unix says: Wrote BBN’s TCP/IP implementation which later became part of Berkeley distribution. text/html 2015-12-31T04:23:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:rob_pike&rev=1451535818&do=diff Rob Pike Life with Unix says: Co—developer of Blit bitmapped terminal. A Research Unix Reader says: Rob Pike supplied a multiprogramming system, host-terminal communications, mouse control, and support for overlapping virtual terminals (mpx, later mux). Pike's system fostered fascinating programs by many people, of whom I shall mention only a few (v8). Pike himself built visual editors, culminating with sam (v9), which went well beyond the command capability of vi — seemingly with no more mec… text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:rob_rosenthal&rev=1451373639&do=diff Rob Rosenthal Life with Unix says: Co-creator of first distributed UNIX file system. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:robert_elz&rev=1451373639&do=diff Robert Elz Life with Unix says: Wrote BSD quotas and autoconfiguration. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:robert_fabry&rev=1451373639&do=diff Robert Fabry Life with Unix says: Original faculty advisor to Berkeley CSRG who got DARPA funding for project. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:robert_henry&rev=1451373639&do=diff Robert Henry Life with Unix says: Wrote error. text/html 2015-12-31T03:04:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:robert_morris&rev=1451531054&do=diff Robert Morris Life with Unix says: Wrote dc and be with Lorinda Cherry. A Research Unix Reader says: Bob (Robert) Morris stepped in wherever mathematics was involved, whether it was numerical analysis or number theory. Bob invented the distinctively original utilities typo, and dc-bc (with Lorinda Cherry), wrote most of the math library, and wrote primes and factor (with Thompson). His series of crypt programs fostered the Center's continuing interest in cryptography. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:ron_cain&rev=1451373639&do=diff Ron Cain Life with Unix says: Wrote Small C, first public-domain C compiler. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:rudd_canaday&rev=1451373639&do=diff Rudd Canaday Life with Unix says: Co-designer of UNIX file system with Dennis and Ken. Created PWB group. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:sam_leffler&rev=1451373639&do=diff Sam Leffler Life with Unix says: Wrote tip with Bill Shannon. Major force behind 4.2BSD and Berkeley TCP. text/html 2015-12-31T03:14:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:sandy_fraser&rev=1451531670&do=diff Sandy Fraser A Research Unix Reader says: Sandy (A. G.) Fraser devised the Spider local-area ring (v6) and the Datakit switch (v7) that have served in the lab for over a decade. Special services on Spider included a central network file store, nfs, and a communication package, ufs. Datakit, a text/html 2019-12-01T02:54:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:start&rev=1575168893&do=diff People Involved in Unix Here is an alphabetical list of people who have been involved in some way with the Unix operating system. A Mike Accetta Rick Adams Alfred Aho Eric Allman Ken Arnold B Ozalp Babaoglu W. O. Baker Andreas Bechtolsheim Steve Bellovin Walt Bilofsky Biff Irma Biren Steve ("srb") Bourne Steve Bunch Brent Byer C Ron Cain Rudd Canaday Luca Cardelli Tom Cargill Lorinda Cherry Greg Chesson Clem Cole Douglas Comer Joe Condon Dave Crocker Bill Croft D … text/html 2022-08-18T16:39:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:stephen_johnson&rev=1660840768&do=diff Stephen ("scj") Johnson Life with Unix says: Wrote yacc, pcc (Portable C Compiler), lint and early versions of spell. Assisted Dennis in one of first ports of UNIX (to Interdata 8/32). A Research Unix Reader says: Steve (Stephen C.) Johnson's yacc reduced Al (Alfred V.) Aho's expertise in language theory text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:steve_bellovin&rev=1451373639&do=diff Steve Bellovin Life with Unix says: Wrote first implementation of Usenet. text/html 2015-12-31T03:09:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:steve_bourne&rev=1451531399&do=diff Steve ("srb") Bourne Life with Unix says: Created the Bourne Shell. Wrote adb. A Research Unix Reader says: Steve (Stephen R.) Bourne arrived at the time of v6, bringing Algol 68 with him. His definitive programs, the debugger adb, and the “Bourne shell,” although written in C, looked like Algol 68: Steve wrote DO-OD and BEGIN- END instead of { and }. Bourne also contributed macro constructs to the UNIX Circuit Design System text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:steve_bunch&rev=1451373639&do=diff Steve Bunch Life with Unix says: Co-wrote first Arpanet (N CP) code for UNIX. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:steve_holmgren&rev=1451373639&do=diff Steve Holmgren Life with Unix says: Co-wrote first Arpanet (N CP) code for UNIX. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:steve_schaefer&rev=1451373639&do=diff Steve Schaefer Life with Unix says: Responsible for CPATH, LPATH, and MPATH. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:steve_zucker&rev=1451373639&do=diff Steve Zucker Life with Unix says: Created early version of named pipes. text/html 2022-11-17T23:33:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:steven_m_shultz&rev=1668728020&do=diff Maintainer since 1989 of 2.11BSD, the last PDP-11 Unix. text/html 2015-12-31T03:11:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:stu_feldman&rev=1451531502&do=diff Stu (”sif") Feldman Life with Unix says: Author of make, f77 and efl. Has nice wine cellar. A Research Unix Reader says: Stu (Stuart M Feldman implemented, with Andy (Andrew D.) Hall, the efl preprocessor to sugar Fortran with PL/I-ish syntax. He wrote the pi Fortran compiler single-handedly and invented the famous make. A man of taste and culture, Stu exhibited both in his underground classic on UNIX style text/html 2015-12-31T03:22:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:ted_dolotta&rev=1451532157&do=diff Ted Dolotta Life with Unix says: Responsible for —m macros. First director of USG. A Research Unix Reader says: Ted (Theodore A.) Dolotta of PWB did much to refine the manual. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:ted_kowalski&rev=1451373639&do=diff Ted Kowalski Life with Unix says: Responsible for modern fsck. ' text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:teus_hagen&rev=1451373639&do=diff Teus Hagen Life with Unix says: Established first uucp connections between US. (decvax), Europe (mcvax) and many other countries. text/html 2015-12-31T04:27:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:tom_cargill&rev=1451536075&do=diff Tom Cargill A Research Unix Reader says: Tom (Thomas A.) Cargill did a monumental multiview debugger pi, thoroughly exercising the object-oriented capabilities of Bjarne Stroustrup's C++. text/html 2015-12-31T04:29:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:tom_killian&rev=1451536198&do=diff 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. text/html 2015-12-31T04:20:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:tom_london&rev=1451535624&do=diff Tom London Life with Unix says: Co—responsible for 32V, first VAX version of UNIX. A Research Unix Reader says: Tom (Thomas B.) London and John F. Reiser ported v7 to the VAX and introduced paging. Their V32 system, as filtered through Berkeley, became the progenitor of almost all research UNIX systems. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:tom_lyon&rev=1451373639&do=diff Tom Lyon Life with Unix says: Did one of first UNIX ports (to VM/370). text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:walt_bilofsky&rev=1451373639&do=diff Walt Bilofsky Life with Unix says: Wrote Rand editor. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:walter_tichy&rev=1451373639&do=diff Walter Tichy Life with Unix says: Wrote RCS. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:walter_zintz&rev=1451373639&do=diff Walter Zintz Life with Unix says: Created Uni—Ops user group. text/html 2023-02-15T21:07:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:warren_toomey&rev=1676495253&do=diff Warren Toomey Warren writes: Although I wasn't involved in the development of Unix, I've had a fascination for Unix for a long time. I set up the Unix Heritage Society and its mailing list, curate the Unix Archive and have contributed to this wiki. I've also done a lot of work restoring old artifacts such as the text/html 2015-12-29T07:01:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:whos_who&rev=1451372474&do=diff 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. text/html 2015-12-29T07:20:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=people:wo_baker&rev=1451373639&do=diff W. O. Baker Life with Unix says: Rejected request for DEC-10 by Thompson, Ritchie and Ossanna, leading to development of a much smaller operating system on a much smaller machine.