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Uncommon card · Science
Marshall Kirk McKusick, an Uncommon card
Marshall Kirk McKusick is an American computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 53
- DEF
- 24
- Power
- 77
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 32,000
Power 77 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Marshall Kirk McKusick quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Marshall Kirk McKusick card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He served on the board of the ______ Foundation from 2012 to 2022.
Answer
FreeBSD. He served on the board of the FreeBSD Foundation from 2012 to 2022. From the Marshall Kirk McKusick article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Marshall Kirk McKusick is an American computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the ____s to FreeBSD in the present day.
Answer
1980s. Marshall Kirk McKusick is an American computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. From the Marshall Kirk McKusick article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Blue giant. Blue giant 56 · Marshall Kirk McKusick 53 · Aliphatic compound 49 · Venturi mask 46 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He served on the board of the USENIX Association from 1986 to 1992 and again from 2000 to 2006, including terms as president from 1990 to 1992 and 2000 to 2002.
- He served on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine from 2002 to 2019.
- He served on the board of the FreeBSD Foundation from 2012 to 2022.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Marshall Kirk McKusick article was read about 32,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 53 and blocks with 24: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Marshall Kirk McKusick
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Marshall Kirk McKusick (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Karora, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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