Joseph Ossanna
Joseph "Joe" F. Ossanna (born December 10, 1928 in Seattle , Washington , † November 28, 1977 in Monterey , California ) was an American computer scientist .
Life
Ossanna completed his electrical engineering - studying at the Wayne State University in Detroit , Michigan in 1952 with the Bachelor from.
He then worked at the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill (New Jersey) . Initially he worked on various basic theoretical projects. Later he was part of the development team for the Multics operating system . Bell Labs gave up this project in 1969.
The team, which included Joseph Ossanna as well as Ken Thompson and Douglas McIlroy , did not want to give up and developed the Unix operating system . To justify the costs of the PDP-11 required for this , Joseph Ossanna developed the Troff typesetting system in 1973 , initially in assembler . 1975 ported to it C . Joseph Ossanna worked on it until his death. In 1979 the project was taken over by Brian Kernighan, who built it up in a more modular way so that a variety of typesetting machines could be supported.
He died at the age of 48 of a serious heart attack in Monterey Hospital, where he had been admitted for a previous minor heart attack.
Individual evidence
- ^ Troff User's Manual (PostScript)
- ^ Printing on Linux
Web links
- The history of troff (English)
- The developer of Troff Overview (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ossanna, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ossanna, Joseph F .; Ossanna, Joe (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1977 |
| Place of death | Monterey , California |