Evi Nemeth (an Ada Lovelace day tribute)

“Sometime around 1981, when your editor was an undergraduate at
the University of Colorado, he was introduced to the Computer
Science department’s prized VAX 11/780, which, at that time, was a
dual boot system, switching between VMS and and early BSD Unix
every afternoon. The chief of the Unix side was Evi Nemeth. The
first thing that struck most people about Evi was a general sense
of distraction and disorganization; it’s only later that one
realized the she was one of those smart people who make things
happen.

“Evi armed your editor with a dog-eared edition of the K&R C
book and access to the Unix source. She encouraged the writing of a
fix…”

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