From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2021 21:25:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic1Vu4Wq-Ptqcat7CthdAYRmWXzidARSk_mNbjXQMvxLQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWtxq7vwh_WdVtZx9-qqN5aNr+t14eTAJx9-eLWjYF0BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Probably time to move this to COFF, but
along the line of Fission for Program Comprehension....
I wonder how many of you don't know about Don Lancaster.
Pioneer in home computing back when that meant something, inventor of a
very low cost 1970s video terminal (the TV Typewriter), tremendously
skilled hacker, brilliant guy.
Also still alive, lives a couple hours away from me in Safford, AZ, and has
been doing fantastic research on Native American hanging canals for the
last couple decades.
Anyway: he wrote a magnificent piece on how to understand a (6502) program
from its disassembly, which reminded me of Gibbons's work:
https://www.tinaja.com/ebooks/tearing_rework.pdf
I don't think Don ever had a lot of crossover with the more academic world
of Unix people, but he's one of my heroes and I have learned a hell of a
lot from his works.
Adam
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-03 2:50 Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-06 4:25 ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2021-12-06 4:42 ` Dan Halbert
2021-12-06 5:18 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-12-06 14:11 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Clem Cole
2021-12-06 14:22 ` Dan Cross
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2021-11-24 15:50 [TUHS] " Norman Wilson
2021-11-16 19:49 Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 20:02 ` Dan Cross
2021-11-16 23:16 ` Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 17:00 Douglas McIlroy
[not found] ` <CAKH6PiXinxBQGRqoeGMcG9CwTA5BNeU-LY164f-ZLYA4obsyuA@mail.g mail.com>
2021-11-16 18:47 ` John Foust via TUHS
2021-11-16 20:35 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 21:35 ` Duncan Mak
2021-12-02 22:32 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 22:34 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-16 14:57 Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 15:22 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-16 15:52 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-23 2:28 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-11-23 7:57 ` Henry Bent
2021-11-23 8:10 ` arnold
2021-11-23 8:28 ` Henry Bent
2021-11-23 17:26 ` Adam Thornton
2021-11-23 18:54 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-23 19:04 ` Al Kossow
2021-11-23 19:39 ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-11-23 19:08 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-23 21:54 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-11-24 15:18 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-24 15:45 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-24 18:34 ` Rich Morin
2021-11-24 18:40 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-24 19:39 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-24 20:02 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-25 10:26 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-11-24 20:13 ` arnold
2021-11-24 20:18 ` Will Senn
2021-11-25 7:22 ` arnold
2021-11-24 20:15 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-24 20:21 ` joe mcguckin
2021-11-24 20:27 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-24 21:27 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-24 22:19 ` Charles Anthony
2021-11-16 3:16 Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 4:08 ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-11-16 14:56 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-16 15:37 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-16 15:50 ` Adam Thornton
2021-11-16 17:02 ` Will Senn
2021-11-16 21:38 ` John Cowan
2021-11-16 21:46 ` Will Senn
2021-11-16 18:27 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-16 18:44 ` Heinz Lycklama
2021-11-14 14:37 Clem Cole
2021-11-14 14:55 ` Dennis Boone
2021-11-14 16:35 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-11-14 18:20 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-14 18:44 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-14 18:52 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-11-14 19:27 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-15 9:49 ` Ralph Corderoy
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