I'm not advocating hero worship, but Boyd was a terrific guy. I believe that he thought he could make a greater difference by helping others. He helped a small number of us on #plan9 and even on a few other channels. I greatly appreciated his help, his stories and most importantly his friendship.
Here are some excerpts of Boyd's from #plan9 (sorry, of course, they're out of context): "And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps!" "anyone with doubts on my 'credentials' can mail ken, dennis, rob, whoever ..." "uriel yer a utopian nihilist" ...."well uriel is a tough fucker" "drunken australians, with 9mm pistols wandering into a nick, without a permit, who belongs to the federal cops gun range -- it's a bit implausible" "while they flounder around, no-one should help 'em so they die -- natural selection 9p has been around for ages and these fools have picked up every damn stupid f/s known to man, 'cept 9p" "see glenda see glenda run run glenda, run seen glenda" "Unfortunately John Mackin, whose reality I have backed up on a 9 track, in tar format, is no longer around to tell the old stories, but he was certainly involved in them. I remember the time we fixed a broken 32V file-system's /etc with a screwdriver, sticky tape, adb, dd and a magtape." "well i do but my stories can be negated by any of the 3rd parties i was lucky -- that's all i'd prefer to share what i know" Perhaps these aren't the best of his comments, but I find it difficult to go through his comments after his death. --vester thacker aka "Gunney"
