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Douglas McIlroy
Douglas McIlroy is a professor of computer science, mathematician, engineer and programmer. He is known for having invented:
- The pipes and filters architecture of UNIX
- The entire concept of software components
- Several UNIX tools such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, tr, etc.
- Doughs homepage (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/)
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