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The personal computer can be a virtual device.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.