25 Jun
1998
25 Jun
'98
3:48 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
It's riveting for the right readers, but like the stuff I try to sell,
the public will go "Huh?". (Personally, your tidbit is fascinating to
_me_, but _I_ don't buy best-sellers [or obviously write them], though I
keep trying -- science fiction is more important than[though obviously
connected to] computers to me -- I was hooked on SF in 1963 or so, didn't
really deal with computers until 1978).
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
like this if they are made about people rather
than, "The idea began
slowly to take shape that instead of using a two-stage adder it would be
easier to use a shift register. This was to come up later when..."
And that's exactly why any book I'd write would sell about 2 copies. I'd
_have_ to write about the machines and how they worked, rather than the
people behind them. Things like 'The 16K WCS PERQ needed 14 address lines
from the sequencer. It used a 2910 for the bottom 12, to maintain
compatability with the 4K board. But, since that sequencer can't easily
be cascaded, a custom sequnecer, built from TTL chips was used for the
top 2 bits. This only implemented a subset of the 2910 instructions
<Darn, where did I put the GGM notes...>...'