On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 10:10 AM Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr> wrote:

> > There was a guy who worked at DG and contributed a lot of the Motorola
> > 88000 code to GCC whose name I don't remember, although I met him
> > at a USENIX.  If someone else remembers who this is, maybe he can
> > be tracked down for more info.
>
> I suppose you're referring to Tom Wood here?
>
> > P.S. For the youngsters here who've never heard of it, I highly
> > recommend Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine" about the
> > development of the Eclipse. (
> https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0316491977/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+soul+of+a+new+machine+by+tracy+kidder&qid=1668271720&sprefix=the+soul+of+a+new%2Caps%2C233&sr=8-1
> ).
> >
> > It was originally written in 1982 - 40 years ago!
>
> Seconded - definitely a must read; even if technology has evolved a lot
> since then, management and human factors have not.
>

Bring them in, burn them out, sweat every hour out of them... call it
excellence. Bah

Warner

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