Geoff Collyer
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Geoff Collyer (born 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist.[1] He is the senior author of C News, a protocol-neutral news transport, and the designer of NOV, the News Overview database (article index) used by all modern newsreaders.[2][3] He contributed the code that allowed to convert the Bourne Shell from using the non-portable sbrk to a portable malloc based implementation.[4] In the past he worked as a Unix system programmer, but since 1994 he has been living on Plan 9 while working at Bell Laboratories.[1]
Honors
Asteroid 129101 Geoffcollyer, discovered by astronomers at the Jarnac Observatory in Arizona in 2004, was named in his honor.[1] The official Template:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 August 2006 (M.P.C. 57426Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[5]
References
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- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Mark Linimon (1994). C News Frequently Asked Questions.
- ↑ C News source code
- ↑ http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/bosh.html Template:Webarchive Bourne Shell project page
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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External links
- Geoff Collyers Homepage with publications
- modified V7 shell source
- modified V9 shell source
- recent Plan 9 kernel source Template:Webarchive
- Geoff Collyer and Henry Spencer (1987). News Need Not Be Slow.
- Mark Linimon (1994). C News Frequently Asked Questions.
- C News source code
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