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On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 06:42:08PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> This is one of my favorite examples of the synergy of having
> sytems builders and theoreticians together in one small 
> department.

Amen to that.  One of my profs was Udi Manber, a super deep theory guy.
I dragged him into systems and he did great.