Re: [Freedos-user] Another IT person passed away...

2011-10-13 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:27 AM, jhall wrote: > > Thanks for passing along the article, I hadn't heard about this. Sad news. > We're losing some big names in technology. I appreciated that the article > mentioned that Dennis's influence was as great as Steve Jobs, just less > visible. That'

Re: [Freedos-user] Another IT person passed away...

2011-10-13 Thread jhall
Thanks for passing along the article, I hadn't heard about this. Sad news. We're losing some big names in technology. I appreciated that the article mentioned that Dennis's influence was as great as Steve Jobs, just less visible. jh On Oct 13, 2011, at 1:37 AM, "Ralf A. Quint" wrote: > Was

[Freedos-user] Another IT person passed away...

2011-10-12 Thread Ralf A. Quint
Was made aware that this last weekend, Dennis Ritchie, the co-inventor of the C programming language and the Unix operating system has passed away... :-( http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html Ralf --