Please take this in the right spirit. It’s not an attack or hostility.
But from someone largely outside the BSD community, I am really sorry, but I had never heard of this man and I don’t know what he did. The notice tells me nothing, and linking to a 1 hour 20 minute long video is no help at all.
Was he not important enough to anyone to take the time to write a paragraph or two about who he was and what he did?
He was, among other things, one of the principle implementers of the original BSD TCP stack, which was then used as the initial TCP implementation in Windows and most Unixes (though most eventually went back and did a from-scratch implementation). I believe in the early days Linux also used the BSD TCP stack.
And the M. Karels in The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System by M. McKusick, K. Bostic, M. Karels, and J. Quarterman. If memory serves me right, he was one of the CSRG folks who founded BSDi – he is one of the people we have to thank for bringing Unix to those of us who really needed better computers :-).
I try but TBH about 99% of my xNix experience was SCO Xenix and Unix in the early days, then Linux.
(OK, and a lot of Mac OS X over nearly 25 years.) Tiny homeopathic doses of AIX and Solaris.
It is only in the last couple of years that I’ve started experimenting with xBSD for work reasons. When I looked at it in the early noughties I found it all but unusable, and it’s not great now.
Please take this in the right spirit. It’s not an attack or hostility.
But from someone largely outside the BSD community, I am really sorry, but I had never heard of this man and I don’t know what he did. The notice tells me nothing, and linking to a 1 hour 20 minute long video is no help at all.
Was he not important enough to anyone to take the time to write a paragraph or two about who he was and what he did?
He was, among other things, one of the principle implementers of the original BSD TCP stack, which was then used as the initial TCP implementation in Windows and most Unixes (though most eventually went back and did a from-scratch implementation). I believe in the early days Linux also used the BSD TCP stack.
So you’re using his work now, one way or another.
And the M. Karels in The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System by M. McKusick, K. Bostic, M. Karels, and J. Quarterman. If memory serves me right, he was one of the CSRG folks who founded BSDi – he is one of the people we have to thank for bringing Unix to those of us who really needed better computers :-).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Karels
I thought someone as well-rounded as you would recognise his name at the drop of a hat. :-)
Thanks, I guess!
I try but TBH about 99% of my xNix experience was SCO Xenix and Unix in the early days, then Linux.
(OK, and a lot of Mac OS X over nearly 25 years.) Tiny homeopathic doses of AIX and Solaris.
It is only in the last couple of years that I’ve started experimenting with xBSD for work reasons. When I looked at it in the early noughties I found it all but unusable, and it’s not great now.
Here’s a video of Karels reminiscing about his work on BSD at last year’s FreeBSD dev summit at BSDcan.