Bob Fabry

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Robert S. Fabry
Born(1940-12-02)December 2, 1940
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisList-structured Addressing (1971)
Doctoral advisorVictor Yngve

Robert Samuel Fabry, as a student at the University of Chicago worked on COMIT II and MADBUG, an interactive debugger for MAD both on CTSS.[1]

Later while a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, conceived of the idea of obtaining DARPA funding for a radically improved version of AT&T Unix and started the Computer Systems Research Group.[2][3][4]

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  1. ^ Crisman, P.A., ed. (December 31, 1969). "The Compatible Time-Sharing System, A Programmer's Guide" (PDF). The M.I.T Computation Center. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
  2. ^ Dr. Peter H. Salus (2005-05-05). "Groklaw - The Daemon, the GNU, and the Penguin - Ch. 7". Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  3. ^ Marshall Kirk McKusick (1999–2001). Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix : From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable. From the book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. O'Reilly. ISBN 1-56592-582-3. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  4. ^ Andrew Leonard (2000-05-16). "BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code: How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s -- and then lost the lead to Linux". salon.com. Retrieved 2014-03-24.

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