I am Not Worthy

Seriously

Page 3 of the ULTRIX-11 Installation Guide contains:

This software and documentation is based in part on the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution under license from the Regents of the University of California. We acknowledge the following individuals and institutions for their role in its development:

The Electrical Engineering and Conputer Sciences Department at the Berkeley Campus of the University of California. Ken Arnold, Earl T. Cohen, John Foderaro, Charles Haley, Mark Horton, William Joy, Jim Kleckner, Geoffrey Peck, Cliff Matthews, University of New Mexico; Eric Shienbrood.

Those are serious people who did serious work. Go ahead and do a web search and see for yourself. You may need to tweak the names a bit, e.g., Bill Joy. I am less than serious (although I am driven).

My contribution to ULTRIX-11 was "Ulf", the <cough>Universal</cough> Lineprinter Filter. It supported two formats: the Diablo and a generic (might work with other printers). The Diablo printer might print faster if every other line was printed backward, because then you didn't have to wait for the print head to be restored to the first column as you would if every line were printed left to right. So, I wrote a filter to support that functionality. The generic format was simply to print left to right the entire time. IOW, it was a tiny hack for a very limited gain.

It's been too long for me to be sure; I may have done something else to get my name in that paragraph, but I can guarantee the sum of my contributions was completely inconsequential.

I only added this page because a good friend, after reading my PDP-8 pages had said:

I "grew up" on a PDP-11 programming…

she used scare quotes because we both know she's never grown up. Some people don't.