From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Book: "You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:17:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221114191739.GG16293@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <221091F111EBACF012E50DDA19871666.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 11:58:36AM -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
> Clem Cole:
>
> Yep -- but not surprising. There were a bunch of folks at DG that had
> worked on a single-level store system (Project Fountain-Head) that had
> failed [some of that story is described in Kidder's book].
>
> ====
>
> Are you sure? I thought Fountainhead was a Rand project.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
>
> PS: if you don't get it, consider yourself fortunate.
I get it. Teenage me thought Rand was a genius, adult me changed his mind.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-14 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-14 16:58 Norman Wilson
2022-11-14 19:17 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2022-11-14 19:50 ` Dave Horsfall
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2022-11-14 14:14 Douglas McIlroy
2022-11-14 15:50 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-13 0:02 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-11-13 0:25 ` [TUHS] " Kenneth Goodwin
2022-11-13 1:12 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-13 1:52 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-13 1:12 ` Stuff Received
2022-11-13 21:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-14 22:48 ` Dave Horsfall
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