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A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
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I am a programmer.
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I am a very bottom-up thinker.
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I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
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I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
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I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
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The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
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There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.
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There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
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We have persistant objects, they're called files.
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We tried to avoid, you know, records.
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When in doubt, use brute force.
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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
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If you give me the right kind of Tinker Toys, I can imagine the building.
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When I see a top-down description of a system or language that has infinite libraries described by layers and layers, all I just see is a morass.
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I can't understand something presented to me that's very complex.
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Maybe I do what I do because if I built anything more complicated, I couldn't understand it.
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What is or is not implemented in the kernel represents both a great responsibility and a great power
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Throughout, simplicity has been substituted for efficiency.
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Complex algorithms are used only if their complexity can be localized.
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My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable.
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Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse.
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I'd spell creat with an e.
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who cares.
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lgtm
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I'm a mere hundred pages of code from serving Datakit.
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I know nothing.
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Maybe I should have screwed up.
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There's going to be no serious problem after this.
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Multics is a powerful teaching tool.
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I just hate to be pushed around by some @#$%^& machine.
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So, if you put a G on the front you have to put a zero on the back?
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No.
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thanks.
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It does everything Unix does only less reliably.
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I imagine people programmed in Fortran for the same reason they took three-legged races.
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rob, you shouldn't have shut down this discussion.
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