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Very nice details about your work with Korn. I’m impressed!

I don’t have anything to match, but I did have lunch with Michael Tiemann, and corresponded with Jon Postel when he was personally administering the .US Domain (and a lot of other things) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel and I got Bjarne Stroustrup to sign a copy of the C++ language book.

I went to Software Development 88. Great conference. As I was leaving from a talk and entered the elevator, Bjarne Stroustrup stepped in as well. I thanked him personally for creating C++. At UseNIX, I had a chance to hang out with Dennis Richie. Keith Muller at UCSD extended an invite to a talk at UCSD where Ken Thompson was speaking. In person he could pass for a biker. My days of rubbing shoulders with the UNIX community ran from 1983 to 1992. After that point, I was too busy with customer contracts to dash off to UseNIX. Postel's name is very familiar from all of the TCP/IP documentation in the early days of the internet. I relied upon those foundation documents as I wrote my early networking applications and kernel device drivers.