When I was a graduate student in computer science at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) in the early seventies, there was no one to teach a graduate course in operating systems. At that time, the issues were multiprogramming, deadlocks, interprocess communication, etc. They decided to hire an MIT professor to fly to Pittsburgh once a week to teach OS in a three hour class. They chose John Donovan, an Irish Bostonian who said that he had earned 7 graduate degrees in two and a half years at Yale and MIT. He worked extensively with Corbato and was constantly saying, "Cahbato and I..."
Thanks for your indulgence of the elderly. Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 11:03 AM Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> wrote: > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/science/fernando-corbato-dead.html > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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