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Re: RIP dmr

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Thomas)
Thu Oct 13 10:23:40 2011

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:22:34 -0400
From: Rob Thomas <robt@cymru.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4E9669E5.3060005@deaddrop.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


> I started with UNIX back when it arrived at school, on reel to reel
> tapes, and it was loaded on to the PDP 11/45. I learned to write C from
> the original K&R (which I still have, of course).

Same here!

> Dennis was one of the good ones. A kind and generous person, who changed
> all our worlds.

Dennis always answered my email queries.  I asked him all sorts of silly
programming and Unix questions early in my career, and he patiently
answered them all.  I wouldn't have my career without both his
contributions and his guidance.

His memory is for blessing.


-- 
Rob Thomas
Team Cymru
https://www.team-cymru.org/
"Say little and do much." M Avot 1:15



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