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Only insofar as they used them as gateways to other machines. Ritchie was on a Plan 9 box, and Kernighan was in other various machines via X



That's not completely true.

Some anti-Microsoft types (about 15 or 20 years ago) were outraged after it was pointed out that (according to the headers of the posts) Ritchie's posts to the 9fans mailing list were being sent from Microsoft Outlook.

Maybe the lesson here is that people who accomplish a lot tend to be pragmatic?




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