About the Author
James Kent Lewis has been in the computer industry for over 35 years. He started out writing basic programs in high school and used punch cards in college for his Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, and assembly language classes. Jim taught himself the C programming language by writing various utilities, including a fully-functional text editor, which he uses everyday.
He started out using DOS and AIX, and then OS/2. Linux is now his operating system of choice.
Jim has worked in the past for several companies, including IBM, Texas Instruments, Tandem, Raytheon, Hewlett-Packard, and others. Most of these positions dealt with low-level device drivers and operating system internals. In his spare time he likes to create video games in Java.
Jim ...
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