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

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.

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.

... With Proper Design, The Features Come Cheaply. This Approach Is Arduous, But Continues To Succeed.

A New Release Of Plan 9 Happened In June, And At About The Same Time A New Release Of The Inferno System, Which Began Here, Was Announced By Vita Nuova.