Some excellent advice so far I have to say. A reasonable assumption is that
I am at least a linux user (entirely accurate, I installed slackware from
floppies a long time ago when the world was new and 486es were still
moderately expensive). Would a BASIC interpreter count as an operating
system I
As a very long time lurker to the plan9 mailing list, something
occasionally catches my eye strewn amongst the arcana. The very first
computer I ever actually touched was in 1979, it had these state of the ark
mag stripe cardboard cards which held the enormous amount of 2kb. It wasn't
mine, my engi
I emailed dmr from my comp sci uni email account once and thanked him
for C and UNIX. He replied thanking me for my cheery email. I wish I'd
kept this email or printed it out :( but the sentiment remains: he was
a modest man who even though immensely important had the time to
respond to a second ye
