The True-gnu Philosophy Is More Extreme Than

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.

One Of The Obvious Things That Went Wrong With Multics As A Commercial Success Was Just That It Was Sort Of Over-engineered In A Sense. There Was Just Too Much In It.

Pretty Much Everything On The Web Uses Those Two Things: C And Unix.

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.

It's True That Compared With The Scene When Unix Started, Today The Ecological Niches Are Fairly Full, And Fresh New Os Ideas Are Harder To Come By, Or At Least To Propagate.