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.
A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
The steady state of disks is full.
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.