4 Jun
2009
4 Jun
'09
1:30 p.m.
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:57:20 -0500, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Has anyone read Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and
the Dawn of the
Computer Age ?
...
Anyone have any back stories or have read the book?
I've got it on
order, but I've read some scathing reviews about how the author got it
wrong. I know some of the scathing reviews might be by people who
weren't described in a favorable light in the book --- but I've seen
plenty of technical stories get screwed up.
I remember reading and enjoying Dealers of Lightning several years ago
when it came out. I worked with some of the PARC folks at their next
gig (DEC Systems Research Center, run by Bob Taylor), and I don't
remember people there having major complaints about the book getting
things wrong. Of course a book like this never gets everything right --
certainly not to everyone's satisfaction, since different people who
experienced the same events don't see them the same way.
--
Tim Mann tim at tim-mann.org http://tim-mann.org/