5 Jan
2017
5 Jan
'17
10:23 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:12:19AM -0600, Andy Kosela wrote:
He was smart but sensitive. And pretty butt hurt over how he had been
treated by the "in crowd" at Usenix. I got past that and found him a
pleasure to work with, but I had to get past all that first. We were
working together in person, I can imagine that working with him through
email would be more than "very hard" unfortunately.
He's a
good guy, a little weird, but so am I. He did some great work
in 386BSD, it was ahead of Linux. I remember going into Fry's and
sticking a 386BSD floppy in to see if it would boot. It usually did.
It had tons of bugs though. That is why Jordan Hubbard and Rod Grimes
started unofficial 386BSD patchkit which transformed into FreeBSD;
"unofficial" because Bill Jolitz was very hard to work with, to say the
least...