Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:22:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is BSD Message-ID: <20010504092247.A73572@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010503104229.A2669@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:42:29AM -0500 References: <15089.53.575798.364087@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105030831370.20381-100000@ns1.coastsight.com> <20010503104229.A2669@cec.wustl.edu>
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On Thursday, 3 May 2001 at 10:42:29 -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:31:55AM -0700, Rick Duvall wrote: >> Are they still alive? No offense...... > > Sure. And if I'm interpretting Ritchie's home page correctly, he's > still with Bell Labs (or Lucent, if you please). I don't know about > the others. dmr and ken are both still at Bell Labs. > Remember, at their oldest, these guys were in their thirties back in > the seventies. That would put them in their sixties today. Dennis Ritchie will turn 60 on 9 September this year. Ken Thompson's birthday is 4 February; I assume that he's a year or two older. Both were very alive last time I saw them in June last year. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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