Messages in this thread |  | | From | Marty Fouts <> | Subject | RE: Availability of kdb | Date | Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:29:14 -0700 |
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Gene did the instruction set architecture along with some others. I think he was also involved in the i/o architecture.
-----Original Message----- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 4:59 PM To: Marty Fouts Cc: 'Malcolm Beattie'; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Availability of kdb
Gene Amdahl I think...
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Marty Fouts wrote:
> I think that more people quote Brooks than have read him and that more > people know him from the Mythical Man Month than from the POO. > > He wasn't, by the way, the principle architect of OS/360; he was the manager > of the 360 development organization. I will email a monster cookie to the > first person who correctly identifies the original architect of OS/360. > > And yes, if Linus manages to learn some new lesson from Linux and writes a > book about it of the endurance of MMM, I'll be shown wrong in my assertion > about his being remembered. > > By the way, my favorite part of the anniversary edition of MMM is Brooks' > apology to Gries about being wrong about information hiding. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Malcolm Beattie [mailto:mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 3:22 AM > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Availability of kdb > > Marty Fouts writes: > > Here's another piece of free advice, worth less than you paid for it: in > 25 > > years, only the computer history trivia geeks are going to remember you, > > just as only a very small handful of us now remember who wrote OS/360. > > You mean like Fred Brooks who managed the development of OS/360, had > some innovative ideas about how large software projects should be run, > whose ideas clashed with contemporary ones, who became a celebrity? > You don't spot any parallels there? He whose book "Mythical Man Month" > with "No Silver Bullet" and "The Second System Effect" are quoted > around the industry decades later? And you think that's only a small > handful of people? > > --Malcolm > > -- > Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> > Unix Systems Programmer > Oxford University Computing Services > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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