From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 16:52:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF4D37B423 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 16:52:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1319F6ACB8; Fri, 4 May 2001 09:22:48 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:22:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Hesford Cc: Rick Duvall , Mike Meyer , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is BSD Message-ID: <20010504092247.A73572@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <15089.53.575798.364087@guru.mired.org> <20010503104229.A2669@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010503104229.A2669@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:42:29AM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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