[COFF] The inexorable passage of time

[COFF] The inexorable passage of time

[Adam Thornton]

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I was idly leafing through Padlipsky's _Elements Of Network Style_ the
other day, and on page 72, he was imagining a future in which a cigar-box
sized PDP-10 would be exchanging data with a breadbox-sized S/370.

And here we are, only 40 years later, and 3 of my PDP-10s and my S/370 are
all running on the same cigarette-pack sized machine, which cost something
like $75 ($25 in 1984 dollars).

Adam

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[COFF] Re: The inexorable passage of time

[Larry McVoy]

I _loved_ Mike's book but it was because I read it at the right time.
I had ported Lachman's (really Coherent's but Lachman owned the code then)
TCP/IP stack to System 5.  I thought I knew what I was doing but I didn't,
not by a long stretch.  I read Mike's book and it was like TCP/IP came
into focus for me.

I think if you knew too little, or too much, you wouldn't appreciate 
that book.  I read it at the perfect time and I have to say, I think
I got more from that book than any other CS book.  And his quotes are
funny and awesome.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 08:29:49AM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
> I was idly leafing through Padlipsky's _Elements Of Network Style_ the
> other day, and on page 72, he was imagining a future in which a cigar-box
> sized PDP-10 would be exchanging data with a breadbox-sized S/370.
> 
> And here we are, only 40 years later, and 3 of my PDP-10s and my S/370 are
> all running on the same cigarette-pack sized machine, which cost something
> like $75 ($25 in 1984 dollars).
> 
> Adam

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