Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.