Robert Samuel Fabry, as a student at the University of Chicago worked on
COMIT II and MADBUG, an interactive debugger for
MAD both on
CTSS.
Later while a
computer science
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professor at the
University of California, Berkeley
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, conceived of the idea of obtaining
DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Originally known as the Adv ...
funding for a radically improved version of
AT&T
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Unix
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and started the
Computer Systems Research Group
The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) was a research group at the University of California, Berkeley that was dedicated to enhancing AT&T Unix operating system and funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
History
Professor Bo ...
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See also
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Unix File System
The Unix file system (UFS) is a family of file systems supported by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is a distant descendant of the original filesystem used by Version 7 Unix.
Design
A UFS volume is composed of the following p ...
References
External links
Bob Fabry, PhD, N6EK - Heard Island Expedition 1997
BSD people
Living people
University of California, Berkeley faculty
1940 births
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