James Kent LewisJames Kent Lewis has been in the computer industry for over 35 years. He started outwriting BASIC programs in high school and used punch cards in college for his Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, and assembly language classes. He himself learned the C programmng languageby 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 devicedrivers and operating system internals. In his spare time he likes to create video games in Java.He has written articles for IBM Developer Works and has one patent. Read More Read Less