[TUHS] citation for a Bill Joy interview?

[TUHS] citation for a Bill Joy interview?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I see http://archive.org/details/BillJoyInterview but the source is 
unknown. Does anyone know who conducted this interview or where it came 
from? (I tried to contact the archive years ago but didn't hear back.)

Most of the stories I have alternative sources for but I'd like to cite 
some of this content in a book I am authoring.

Also it doesn't seem to have a starting place. It appears the beginning 
of the interview is missing. (Also it has eight sections marked with 
"[Skipped portion you requested.]" and 27 page breaks.)

It appears it may have been OCR'd (Exacfiy = Exactly, correcfiy = 
correctly, f'mally = finally, f'md = find, f'n'st = first, llliac = 
ILLIAC, Riogin = Rlogin, HTrP: = HTTP: and many other OCR-like typos), 
plus misspelled names where the originally typed wrong (so I assume the 
transcriber wasn't directly related to this story, like deck = DEC, 
Favory = Fabry, Gerwitz = Gurwitz, "E-bid(?) ASCH" = maybe EBCDIC to 
ASCII).

If anyone knows the source for this interview or a proper bibtex entry 
for it, I'd appreciate it.

[TUHS] citation for a Bill Joy interview?

[Ronald Natalie]

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It appears to be a transcription of an interview (yes probably subsequently imprecisely OCR’d).   It doesn’t sound like it’s actually the quality of a published article (since it still has inline comments about skipping things as requested), but likely is some piece of correspondence between Bill and whoever.

Given some of the events he is talking about in current situation it seems to date to the mid 90’s.   It is after Mosaic (1982) but refers to Jon as if he is still alive (he died in 1998).   It’s also incredibly off the cuff.   Bill is off by a couple of years on the dates (ARPANET/TCP conversion, VAX 11/750 availability).



I thing E-bid? ASCH is 8-bit ASCII.   EBCDIC doesn’t make any sense in that context.



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