Supercool!
I will now go and eat my Tanenbaums for lunch.
Respect,
Johan
Den/At 04-03-02 10.28 skrev/wrote "Moose" <[olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxx]>:
>
> 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]>:
>>
>>
>>
>>> His comment on standardaization in the industry (is MS listening??) was
>>> "I believe strongly in standards. Everybody should have one."
>>>
>>> Moose
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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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