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

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

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

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