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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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Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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