Hi again, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:27 AM, jhall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: >> >> Thanks for passing along the article, I hadn't heard about this. Sad news. >> We're losing some big names in technology. I appreciated that the article >> mentioned that Dennis's influence was as great as Steve Jobs, just less >> visible. > > That's an understatement. I mean, somebody would have to be really > clueless to not give mad props to dmr. C is still #1 or #2 (depending > on where you read your stats) in overall language popularity. I blame > GNU. ;-) > > However, dare I take this opportunity to mention that both Jobs and > Ritchie have decent Wikipedia pages, but our beloved Pat has none! > Sadly, I'm not really that knowledgeable about him, so I don't think > I'd write a very good one. Jim? Anybody? Surely we can give him a > decent legacy. :-) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Villani
Well I finally did it. Took a few hours, and I really didn't know Pat well enough (online) to do him justice, but I sure tried very very hard. It's kinda weird creating a page from scratch, esp. since Wikipedia is so annoying about bureaucracy, strict rules, revert wars, etc. They also delete a lot of articles for not being notable. However, I'm hoping Linux w/ DOSEMU and the fact that it's written in uber-famous C (hi, dmr!) will help, in case the obvious fact that MS-DOS was hugely successful isn't enough anymore for today's snobs. (Wikipedia is a great idea but seems to be a bit insane in some ways. They better not argue it's not notable enough. It's certainly more notable than the AC Transit Bus Fight, which links to a big page describing (euphemism) "mothertrucker", as if anybody didn't already understand or gives a crap.) In case it isn't obvious, feel free (for some of you in the know) to edit / improve / fix this page for Pat. I just think it's only "fair" to give him a proper send-off! I mean, if DOS-C/FreeDOS isn't "notable", what the hell are we all doing here?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
