Yeah, he and I traded emails briefly 7 or 8 years ago, I think, but didn't really have that much to talk about. But we go way back -- we were in the same class

Yeah, he and I traded emails briefly 7 or 8 years ago, I think, but didn't really have that much to talk about. But we go way back -- we were in the same class and same dorm at MIT (before he dropped out and wrote BDS C), and were housemates for about a year c. 1981-82. Ever hear of MINCE? It was a micro-Emacs that first ran on CP/M, later MS-DOS. The first version was developed using BDS C.