Dmitry Gurtyak

1971 – 1998

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KeyRus was a DOS-based TSR device driver for keyboard and display, written by the Donetsk student and hacker Dmitry Gurtyak in 1989. It was widely distributed in the USSR and outside of the country free of charge. The last version of KeyRus was released in 1994. Gurtyak died in 1998 of a soft tissue sarcoma at 27 years of age. KeyRus was distributed primarily via electronic bulletin boards and Nikolai Bezroukov's Softpanorama electronic magazine. It loaded fonts into the EGA/VGA and supported changes to be keyboard layout. Initially, it could change only between the Russian and Latin keyboard

Name
Dmitry Gurtyak
Locality
Яковлівка, Ucraina
Born
9 octombrie 1971
Died
13 noiembrie 1998
Age
27 years
From
Makiivka
Location
Щегловський цвинтар ↗
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Щегловський цвинтар
Locality
Яковлівка
Country
Ucraina
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Щегловський цвинтар

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