Ever read Kernighan and Pike's The UNIX Programming Environment? I read it (not too long) before I actually used a UNIX system for the first time. (I was an MVS systems programmer back then.) And as I was reading it, I noted something peculiar, which this letter describes.
And here's a pointer to my FreeBSD page (along with reciprocal pointers to information on how I set up my laptop to run FreeBSD).
Some notes on deployment of ``wireless Ethernet'' (802.11b) are here.
I started collecting some genealogical information.