Marshall Kirk McKusick

Marshall Kirk McKusick ( born January 19, 1954 in Wilmington ) is an American computer scientist. Since the 1980s, he worked on BSD and later on FreeBSD. For several years he was president of the USENIX.

Biography

McKusick earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University. Then he took a master's degree in computer science and in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1984 he received his doctorate in computer science specialist. From 1990 to 1992, and from 2002 to 2003 was president of the McKusick interest USENIX Association, where he primarily championed by its own account for the freedom of free software. McKusick came to the BSD project, as it is in Berkeley an office with Bill Joy told, was one of the Inititiatoren the operating system. His creations include the original Berkeley Fast File System, or FMS. To date, he developed the FFS further and has introduced more recently about the modern filesystem UFS2.

McKusick lives with his partner Eric Allman in California.

Works

  • Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels: The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System. Addison -Wesley, Amsterdam, 1989, ISBN 978-0201061963.
  • Marshall Kirk McKusick: Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix. In: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. O'Reilly Media, London 1999, ISBN 978-1565925823.
  • Greg Lehey, Marshall Kirk McKusick: The Complete FreeBSD: Documentation from the Source. O'Reilly Media, London 2003, ISBN 978-0596005160.
  • Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. Addison - Wesley Professional 2004, ISBN 978-0201702453.
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