I just saw that Dennis Ritchie has a short cut to Sam on his Windows NT desktop in 2002, while Brian Kernighan was using Sam from plan9port on Mac OS in 2015, from this screenshot <a href="https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/" rel="nofollow">https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developer...</a><p>I thought it was interesting to point this out.
Interesting — the screenshot of Ritchie's desktop towards the bottom of the article shows output of the "dict" command with a listing of available dictionaries. The only one visible is OED 2nd edition. I had no idea OED was ever available for dictd...
Pretty interesting, that mail utility didn't bother to wrap the words
correctly. Notice<p><pre><code> .. BSD and o\nther ..
.. persons i\nn ..
.. give a\nn ..
</code></pre>
and so on.
Thank you so very much, zaiste, for sharing this marvelous piece of history! I enjoyed every bit of it.<p>I'm curious, if you had a do-over - what particular questions would you have asked the great Dennis Ritchie?