I knew Bill as the "I18N"[1] guy. SunOS 4.0 had this new feature that let you type things in languages other than English and Bill was there solving a lot of th

I knew Bill as the "I18N"[1] guy. SunOS 4.0 had this new feature that let you type things in languages other than English and Bill was there solving a lot of the weird problems that came up. That said, the systems folks "hated" all the scut work of adding complicated layers of interfaces everywhere the system printed a message. I knew he had been at PARC but it wasn't until the Computer History Museum Fellows dinner for Englebart that I found out his part in that demo. [1] A quick way to write Internationalization which has 18 letters between I and N.