I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.