I was studying at the UNSW - attended John Lions' Operating System course and met Ken Thompson during his sabbatical visit :) Most of my time was spent hacking

I was studying at the UNSW - attended John Lions' Operating System course and met Ken Thompson during his sabbatical visit :) Most of my time was spent hacking UNIX/Networking at Uni, C/C++ and 68000 Assembly on the Amiga at home (loved Fred Fish and Matt Dillon's work). Hacking hardware peripherals designed for other computers to make them work on the Amiga. Also wrote my first C compiler and LISP interpreter then. Discovered TeX/LaTeX and used them for my thesis during my final engineering year later. Discovered magazines such as DDJ, BYTE and journals such as Comms of the ACM, IEEE Transactions, etc. and spent way too much time on level 6 and 7 of the Uni library reading them. Worked at the CSIRO during semester break and wrote an image analysis library in C and displaying in X-Window. Dreamed about having my own Tektronix oscilloscope and logic analyser :)