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McKusick received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University , and 2 M.S. degrees (in 1979 and 1980 respectively) and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University Of California, Berkeley in 1984. {Link without Title} He lives in California with Eric Allman , his domestic partner since graduate school.1 McKusick is an avid wine collector and the temperature and vital statistics of his house and wine cellar are available on the web from his homepage. BSD Kirk started with BSD by virtue of the fact that he shared an office at Berkeley with Bill Joy , who in essence spearheaded the beginnings of the BSD system. BSDTalk interview with Kirk McKusick Some of McKusick's largest contributions to BSD have been to the " (as found in /usr/include/ufs/ffs/fs.h on FreeBSD systems). He was also primarily responsible for creating the complementary features of filesystem Snapshot s and background Fsck (file system check and repair), which both integrate closely with soft updates. After the filesystem snapshot, the filesystem can be brought up immediately after a power outage, and fsck can run as a background process. The ''Design and Implementation'' series of books are regarded as very high quality works in computer science. They have been strongly influential in the development of the BSD descendants and have contributed to their cohesive and well-thought-out nature. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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