tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-09:26390 Linux4All Linux4All 2011-05-04T15:54:47Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-09:26390:18724 Thomas Fischer 2011-05-04T15:54:47Z 2011-05-04T15:54:47Z amused public 2 Posted by: <span lj:user='t_fischer' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://t-fischer.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://t-fischer.dreamwidth.org/'><b>t_fischer</b></a></span><br /><br /><p>Researching material for a lecture on Unix administration, I came across <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy">Doug McIlroy</a>, famous for co-inventing <tt>diff</tt>, Unix pipelining, and other important things.</p> <p>I found a <a style="font-weight:bold;" href="http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sinclair/doug/?doug=mcilroy">web page</a> which lists what Doug can do. Some examples:</p> <ul> <li>Doug McIlroy spawns Init</li> <li>Doug McIlroy invented diff to win a bet</li> <li>Doug McIlroy supervises the hypervisor</li> <li>Doug McIlroy doesn't have an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős_number">Erdős number</a>; Erdős has a McIlroy number</li> </ul><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=linux4all&ditemid=18724" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments