Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first person to post a weekly
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. He developed the
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package) to manipulate it. He owns the internet address acme.com (which is notable for receiving over one million
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s a day), and worked on the team that ported
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. He has shared in two USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards - in 1993 for Berkeley Unix, and in 1996 for the Software Tools Project.
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Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first person to post a weekly
FAQFrequently asked questions, or FAQs are listed questions and answers, all supposed to be frequently asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. Since the acronym FAQ originated in textual media, its pronunciation varies; "fack," "fax," "facts," and "F.A.Q." are commonly heard...
to
UsenetUsenet, a portmanteau of "user" and "network" , is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It evolved from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name....
. He developed the
portable pixmapThe phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats.The portable pixmap format , the portable graymap format and the portable bitmap format are image file formats originally designed to be easily exchanged between platforms...
file format and Pbmplus (the precursor to the
NetpbmNetpbm is an open source package of graphics programs and a programming library, used mainly in the Unix world. It is a highly portable package, working under many Unix platforms, Windows, Mac OS X, VMS, Amiga OS and others and is included in all major open source Unix-like operating system...
package) to manipulate it. He owns the internet address acme.com (which is notable for receiving over one million
e-mail spamE-mail spam, also known as junk e-mail, is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail . Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk...
s a day), and worked on the team that ported
A/UXA/UX was Apple Computer’s implementation of the Unix operating system for some of their Macintosh computers. The later versions of A/UX ran on the Macintosh II, Quadra and Centris series of machines as well as the SE/30. A/UX was first released in 1988, with the final version released in 1995...
. He has shared in two USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards - in 1993 for Berkeley Unix, and in 1996 for the Software Tools Project.
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