The DR. Jupiter hypothesis:

FOURier analysis of the Poisson distribution of DR's thesis hints at the possibility that had Bob Bemer[0] been able to golf ASCII,

DR might have joined the selectra golf club and forgone the unix/multics debate. aka made full use of the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter (MT/ST) model.

if "Mathematicians Complete Quest to Build ‘Spherical Cubes’"[1] had just been available to Bob Bemer....

[0] : https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/selectric...

[1] : https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-complete-quest...