The Number Of Unix Installations Has Grown

Steve Jobs Has Said That Xwindows Is Brain-damamged And Will Disappear In Two Years. He Got It Half-right.

Any Editing, Software Work, And Mail Is Done In This Exported Plan 9

Obviously, The Person Who Had Most Influence On My Career Was Ken Thompson. Unix Was Basically His, Likewise C's Predecessor, Likewise Much Of The Basis Of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike Was The Real Force In Getting It Together). And In The Meantime Ken Created The First Computer Chess Master And Pretty Much Rewrote The Book On Chess Endgames. He Is Quite A Phenomenon.

For Books, I Don't Read Much Fiction, But Like Travel Essays And Good Pop-science.

Unix Is Basically A Simple Operating System, But You Have To Be A Genius To Understand The Simplicity.