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For those unaware, "PHK" is:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-Henning_Kamp

Amongst other things (including jails), he invented the MD5crypt algorithm (originally for FreeBSD) as an alternative to the original DEScrypt of Unix:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt_(C)#MD5-based_scheme

Nowadays probably most well-known for creating Varnish:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)

"... spending an hour over breakfast, chatting with Dennis Ritchie about device nodes and timekeeping in early UNIX kernels"

Wow, what an incredible experience!

Nice article! I wonder if now, with all the NUMA stuff and processors with hundreds of cores something changed sufficiently enough that it warrants another complete redesign similar to what happened in the article

Nice guy by the way! Met him on a train home from work once. I was working on my computer, glanced left and saw someone with a red beard running a tiling WM on some real boy system. Since we were in the silent zone, I wrote

    phk?

In a text editor - got a nod, and we shook hands :)