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

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

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 a home-body and get fatigued by it fairly soon, but enjoy thinking back on experiences when I've returned and then often wish I'd arranged a longer stay in the somewhat exotic place.

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.

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

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