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Fernando Corbató Dies at 93

July 16, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Fernando Corbató, whose work on computer time-sharing in the 1960s helped pave the way for the personal computer, as well as the computer password, died on Friday at a nursing home in Newburyport, Mass. He was 93.

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