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TUHS - USENIX flame award #unix #community

🕣︎ - 2022-12-31

This years USENIX flame award went to Warren Toomey for tuhs.org - short for The Unix Heritage Society.

Fittingly this was announced on their mailing list by Douglas McIlroy followed by a bunch of congratulatory messages, including one from Ken Thompson, both of Unix fame.

The mailinglist is worth following.

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