More likely the other way around. I'm sure it was a common phrase in
computer engineering circles. My brother predates Tanenbaum's volumes.
He knew the Homebrew folks and is mentioned a couple of times in Fire in
the Valley. His first products were a clock fix and regulated power
supplies for Altairs. He made disk drive addons for Trash 80s - 8 inch
floppies before the 5 1/4s existed. (Do you know the origin and original
purpose of the original 8" floppies?). Made an S100 bus machine with a
Morrow designed front board. Was chief engineer then production manager
for Morrow designs. When Morrow folded, he went with the first LCD
screen portable, the Morrow 'Lunchbox', to Zenith. There he designed
portables until going freelance, putting together designs and selling
them to people like Gateway. Been dead several years now.
Moose
johan.malmstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Den/At 04-03-02 03.40 skrev/wrote "Moose" <[olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxx]>:
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>>His comment on standardaization in the industry (is MS listening??) was
>>"I believe strongly in standards. Everybody should have one."
>>
>>Moose
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>Actually, that is a quote by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and should be more like
>"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.
>Furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next
>year's model." Tanenbaum is the writer of fine volumes like "Modern
>operating systems" and "Computer Networks" (from where the above quote is).
>
>Your brother seems to be a nice chap and have probably these fine books in
>his collection.
>
>/ Johan
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