One of the most important half-a-dozen living figures in the world of computing, and almost totally unrecognised.
He deserves more respect.
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Almost no one remembers Gary Kildall, either. Yet no computer (or for that matter, compiler) would be recognizable if not for his achievements.
Pretty much true -- but Dr Kildall's company was huge in its time, its product dominated the infant PC industry, and of course dictated the design of MS-DOS 1.x. His influence was great. Nelson's work _inspired_ the biggest technological development of the last 30 years, but it never shipped, and what we got is a pale shadow of his idea.