Damn. Condolences to his nearest & dearest.
My favourite jmk-ism was when he described C++ as "the flavour of the
weak" within a certain organisation.
Another random memory:
he re-used the V6 kernel initialisation code as clist blocks for the tty
driver to eke out the limited kernel address space on non-sep-I&D PDP-11s.
You are not expected to understand this.
Dave
On 25/06/2020 01:35, Charles Forsyth wrote:
I am sorry to say that Jim McKie (jmk) died suddenly on 16 June.
https://www.ippolitofuneralhomes.com/obituaries/James-B-McKie?obId=15111702&fbclid=IwAR3d7aHZXEOhYz-ciOrQPh-W1eMw-_8MHiCUdeKOxzLBEI6VGHsSn4aTjdk
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