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The photograph of Ken and Dennis in Chapter 2 appears courtesy of Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.

The epigraph on the Portability chapter is from the Bell System Technical Journal, v57 #6 part 2 (July-Aug. 1978) pp. 2021-2048 and is reproduced with the permission of Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.