A number of academics seem to have very simple HTML pages like this one. See Knuth's page for example. Most of the Comp Sci professors at my school had pages like this also.<p>Only thing I don't like about reading them on a modern wide monitor is that the lines get too long. A bit of CSS to set a max width and a margin and they'd be near-perfect.<p>Fortunately there's reader mode.
The wayback machine has snapshots of this, including one taken today, June 4. [1] I hope the current error is just something transient and will be resolved soon. I also hope someone has contacts for the website to alert them.<p>[1]: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.bell...</a>
>I joined Bell Labs in 1967, following my father, Alistair E. Ritchie, who had a long career there. His most visible public accomplishment was as co-author of The Design of Switching Circuits, with W. Keister and S. Washburn; it was an influential book on switching theory and logic design just before the transistor era.<p>This and the part about Bell Labs transmogrifying around Richie through the years makes me wonder how many of Richie’s accomplishments were due to Bell and what could he have done outside of Bell on his own path? I’m thinking that living in an attic while accomplishing great CS feats is a delicate balance that might have only happened at Bell with his parents support. But is there another timeline where he sees the weaknesses at Bell and ends up somewhere else in Silicon Valley?
He mentions Plan 9. Reading that Wikipedia lead to the Inferno operating system. Which mentions a focus on portability and a file interface.
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)</a><p>That reminds me of web assembly and WASI.<p>So this is tangential but how is the component stuff in web assembly doing? It seemed like such a great idea to me but apparently, at least at one point, was somehow controversial or political.<p>Also, I wonder if it would be possible to port Inferno to web assembly.
Specially to note is the history of C, where he acknowledges the issues with C and the creation of lint for static analysis (in 1979), or his proposal for fat pointers, that wasn't accepted by WG14.
"My undergraduate experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be a physicist, and that computers were quite neat."<p>Thank god I am not the only one!
I love the OtherUnix page.<p>There's a link to a Hungarian company called Unix Autó who have a product called InfoMix - which I initially scanned as Informix. That would've been a coincidence too far.
I see no mention of family beyond siblings. Was he not married/in a relationship? I realize some people don't want that, but it's always made me sad even so.
Obligatory HN details:<p>- No CSS on the page<p>- No JS on the page<p>- Gif for image<p>- Static site hosted using Nginx and plain old /www folder<p>- For some reason, reasonably responsive on mobile<p>Did I miss anything ? Oh yea, superfast page load.