Wonderful History of Computing obit-- Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93

[Tom Johnson]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/science/fernando-corbato-dead.html

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[Frank Wimberly-2]

When I was a graduate student in computer science at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) in the early seventies, there was no one to teach a graduate course in operating systems.  At that time, the issues were multiprogramming, deadlocks, interprocess communication, etc.  They decided to hire an MIT professor to fly to Pittsburgh once a week to teach OS in a three hour class.  They chose John Donovan, an Irish Bostonian who said that he had earned 7 graduate degrees in two and a half years at Yale and MIT.  He worked extensively with Corbato and was constantly saying, "Cahbato and I..."

Thanks for your indulgence of the elderly.

Frank

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 11:03 AM Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/science/fernando-corbato-dead.html

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