Sublime

West came to Data General in 1974, joining Carl Alsing and the other engineers who were attempting to bring the first Eclipse to life. To Alsing, West appeared to be just a good, competent circuit designer, but strikingly adept at finding and fixing the flaws in a computer. “A great debugger,” Alsing considered him. “He was so fast in the lab I fel

Well over a billion dollars had gone into developing this operating system, an investment that continues today with no realistic possibility of a return. The technique works well as long as enough money pours in to buoy up moribund projects. But by mid-1989, IBM was so laden with the walking dead that its highly profitable mainframe monopoly could

Bricklin: I met Bob when I was a freshman at MIT. I was working in the labs as my student job—because a really good way to learn an area in college is to work on a real project in one of the labs.

Livingston: Was the code tuned to the IBM machine? Kapor: It was tuned to the Intel 808X 16-bit architecture. And Sachs was also very, very good. He was just an artist at high performance with limited resources. I didn't know how good he was; I got lucky. I knew he was good, but he was a genius at this sort of stuff. The two of us together was esse

Son client, « Rosy » l’avait baptisé « de Niro », parce qu’il avait à peu près son âge, cette même tête de springer fatigué par on ne sait trop quoi et cet air de se foutre du monde et de tellement d’autres choses.

During the 1960s, Salton developed a system that was to become a model for information retrieval. It was called SMART,