>> >>> That clock advances one *day* at a time. >> >>"I am going to a commune in Vermont, and will deal with no unit of >>time shorter than a season." > >That book is the best. >
Agreed. For those that haven't read it yet or are wondering what the heck we are talking about: "The Soul of a New Machine" Tracy Kidder ISBN 0-380-59931-7 This book (a 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner) documents the adventure of the design of a new Data General computer, the Eclipse. It is an amazingly well-done portrait of the hacker mindset --- although largely the hardware hacker --- done by a complete outsider. It is a bit thin in spots, but with enough technical information to be entertaining to the serious hacker while providing non-technical people a view of what day-to-day life can be like --- the fun, the excitement, the disasters. During one period, when the microcode and logic were glitching at the nanosecond level, one of the overworked engineers departed the company, leaving behind a note on his terminal as his letter of resignation: "I am going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season." From: http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/tech/computers/TheHackersDictionaryofComputerJargon/chap62.html -Ales _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user