Geoff Collyer (born 1958) is a

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. He is the senior author of '' C News'', a protocol-neutral news transport, and the designer of NOV, the News Overview

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(article index) used by all modern newsreaders. He contributed the code that allowed to convert the

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from using the non-portable sbrk to a portable

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based implementation.http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/bosh.html Bourne Shell project page In the past he worked as a

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system programmer, but since 1994 he has been living on ''Plan 9'' while working at

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Honors

Asteroid 129101 Geoffcollyer, discovered by astronomers at the Jarnac Observatory in Arizona in 2004, was named in his honor. The official was published by the

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on 9 August 2006 ().

References

External links

Geoff Collyers Homepage with publications

modified V7 shell source

modified V9 shell source

recent Plan 9 kernel source
* Geoff Collyer and Henry Spencer (1987).
News Need Not Be Slow
'. * Mark Linimon (1994).
C News Frequently Asked Questions
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C News source code
* 1958 births Living people Usenet people Plan 9 people {{compu-bio-stub