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Fernando Corbató Dead

Fernando Corbató
KindPerson
Born1926
Died2019
StatusDead
Fieldoperating systems
Also known asCorby
Sourcemulticians.org ↗

Built CTSS — the first real time-sharing system — then led Multics, the influential failure Unix reacted against.

Created CTSS Multics

Led CTSS and Multics — the time-sharing systems that made computing communal — and coined the password.\n\nTuring Award 1990; 'Corbató's law' about lines of code per day remains the best productivity observation.

Sources

  1. multicians.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Corbat%C3%B3