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Raymond Juimong Chen is a well-known developer on the , Windows 95 , DirectX , and later versions of Windows. He has also spoken at Microsoft PDCs and other conferences.

Raymond is known for his programming abilities, his dry, pithy comments , and his custom of wearing suits at workBrockschmidt, Kraig. Mystic Microsoft . Chen is not named here but has confirmed elsewhere that he is the developer in question..


WRITINGS

Chen writes a blog, popular among .


HOBBIES

His computer-unrelated hobbies, as described in the blog, include knitting, cooking, classical music, bicycling, and learning multiple foreign languages ( Swedish , German , and Mandarin Chinese ). Chen also learned some Taiwanese Dialect Chinese growing up. A comment in The New Old Thing, Nov 10, 2005 .

Before his career at Microsoft and lasting even into 1995, Raymond Chen identified himself as "just another Linux hacker" in his Usenet Sig . He is listed in the Linux kernel CREDITS file as "Author of Configure script". It is unknown if Chen is the only person who has contributed code to both Windows and Linux.


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