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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: nicholas on October 13, 2011, 01:44:05 PM
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Surely to God we belong and to Him shall we return.
Creator of the two greatest things in computer science and one of my personal heroes passed away this weekend.
He will never be forgotten. Rest in peace great man!
https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en
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True that.
Thanks for C and THE book on it, Dennis! :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
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Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.
Wow, I wonder if I ever ran into him in the hall back in 2000-2001.
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Awww... That's sad news, R.I.P. Dennis. When I was in university they constantly referred to Kernighan & Richie's C book, so much so it became known to us as the K&R bible. Where would we be without C and UNIX?
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Awww... That's sad news, R.I.P. Dennis. When I was in university they constantly referred to Kernighan & Richie's C book, so much so it became known to us as the K&R bible. Where would we be without C and UNIX?
Locked into a CPM derived world probably. Yuk!
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Goodbye and thank you Dennis. :_(
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The world lost a couple great people who advanced technology dramatically and both in different ways. My one consolation is that Richie live a full life and achieved all that he might in the time he had.
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The world lost a couple great people who advanced technology dramatically and both in different ways. My one consolation is that Richie live a full life and achieved all that he might in the time he had.
No Dennis, no OSX. I wonder what Apple might have used had UNIX not been invented?
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*tips hat*
Now I'm gonna have to spend the day coding in memoriam...
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Rip :(
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No Dennis, no OSX. I wonder what Apple might have used had UNIX not been invented?
Not sure... Probably would have dragged MacOS classic into the 21st century, and I would have little to do with them...
If my memory serves, TripOS (the basis for AmigaDOS) was a Unix inspired system if not a direct clone... So no UNIX, no Amiga :-/
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If my memory serves, TripOS (the basis for AmigaDOS) was a Unix inspired system if not a direct clone... So no UNIX, no Amiga :-/
Nah. We just would have had to wait for CAOS.
http://www.devili.iki.fi/mirrors/haynie/caos.html
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Nah. We just would have had to wait for CAOS.
http://www.devili.iki.fi/mirrors/haynie/caos.html
If you read, CAOS simply wasn't viable... It wouldn't have met its delivery targets and possibly would have pushed the project too late to compete with Atari and Apple
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Not sure... Probably would have dragged MacOS classic into the 21st century, and I would have little to do with them...
As a large amount of MacOS classic will have been written in C as well with out Dennis Ritchie MacOS classic may also have failed to come to pass :-)
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Not sure... Probably would have dragged MacOS classic into the 21st century, and I would have little to do with them...
If my memory serves, TripOS (the basis for AmigaDOS) was a Unix inspired system if not a direct clone... So no UNIX, no Amiga :-/
TRIPOS was originally developed for the PDP-11, but that's about the only thing it has in common with UNIX.
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As a large amount of MacOS classic will have been written in C as well with out Dennis Ritchie MacOS classic may also have failed to come to pass :-)
Actually, it was originally written in assembler and Pascal, I don't think they went C until System 7 or 7.5.
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Actually, it was originally written in assembler and Pascal, I don't think they went C until System 7 or 7.5.
lol, but did they use emacs or vi to write the code as both were written in C if I remember correctly :)
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Actually, it was originally written in assembler and Pascal, I don't think they went C until System 7 or 7.5.
Oh I have sweet memories of writing everything in Turbo Pascal then re-writing it again in TASM syntax assembly to teach myself the latter. :)
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lol, but did they use emacs or vi to write the code as both were written in C if I remember correctly :)
According to Andy Hertzfeld's account they used Lisas for development work, and IIRC the Lisa software was also all Pascal or assembler, so it's possible C didn't enter the equation (on the OS-dev side of things) until much later.
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The Kernighan/Ritchie is still what I consider my personal holy book of coding :) Without it, I'd have never figured my way around in C...
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I just checked and I have this very book also Revision2 this is great because I'm going to start the road to programming again early November
very cool :-)
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I just checked and I have this very book also Rev2 this is great because I'm going to start the road to programming again early November
When I first began this journey I was working out of "beginning with C" by Ron House which is supposed to be C++ compatiable
I have all or most of the abacus programming books but I'm not sure I want to learn C using Amiga C for beginners etc...
anyway, sorry to stray, this is a day to remember!
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/* RIP Dennis :( */
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RIP
There's a part of me that wishes he made it to 2016.
RIP dmr.