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Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work
Remembering Finger, 84, who learned as he went and left his mark on many.
Broadcom provided no code for its gear, so Finger helped reverse-engineer the necessary specs by manually dumping and reading hardware registers. He summarizes his background: Fortran programmer in 1963, PDP-11 interfaces to scientific instruments in the 1970s, VAX-11/780 work in the early 1980s, and then Unix/Linux systems, until retiring from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, in 1999. He joined the computer club, which had a growing number of Windows PCs sharing a DSL connection through one of the systems running WinGate.
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