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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.

External Links

Doughs homepage (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/)

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