VincentLaw Posted October 15, 2011 Posted October 15, 2011 (edited) One of the most important people in computer history, Creator of C and co-creator of Unix. Despite the fact that most of the world will probably not notice, you should. http://www.zdnet.com/news/dennis-ritchie-father-of-unix-and-c-dies/6314570 Edited October 15, 2011 by VincentLaw [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
cichlidfan Posted October 15, 2011 Posted October 15, 2011 Indeed, a sad day! I spent most of the '90s in front of a Unix shell prompt! ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
leafer Posted October 15, 2011 Posted October 15, 2011 Too bad people like Jobs gets all the lime light and credit. ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
Vekkinho Posted October 15, 2011 Posted October 15, 2011 Too bad people like Jobs gets all the lime light and credit. I can't believe you said this! Jobs deserved every bit of it! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
EtherealN Posted October 15, 2011 Posted October 15, 2011 I can't believe you said this! Jobs deserved every bit of it! Read what he said again. ;) MacOS X would have been impossible without Dennis Ritchie, same goes for NeXT, major parts of earlier MacOS, etcetera etcetera. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
leafer Posted October 16, 2011 Posted October 16, 2011 I can't believe you said this! Jobs deserved every bit of it! I used to admire him when I saw Triumph of the Nerds. =CFL9IyJ_qHk The man can talk, but where would he be without the scientists at Xerox, Wozniak, or even Jonathan Ive? Jobs said during the iPad presentation that it's the most important work of his life. Great artists steal. “When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.” Alan Kay ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
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