Jef Poskanzer
Computer programmer
- Fame48.7
- Momentum2.2
- Developers rank#165
Source-basedStable
- Fame48.7
- Momentum2.2
- Developers rank#165
- Wikipedia3.2K
Born 1958 · age 68United States
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Updated 2026-07-10
Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first person to post a weekly FAQ to Usenet. He developed the portable pixmap file format and pbmplus to manipulate it. He has also worked on the team that ported A/UX. 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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Momentum2.2
Historical6.2
Source confidence50.0
Completeness80.0
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- Посканзер, ДжефLow confidencewikipedia · ru.wikipedia.org
- جيف بوسكانزرLow confidencewikipedia · arz.wikipedia.org
- Jef PoskanzerLow confidencewikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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