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Allegedly, it took him a month - https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/expotape.htm https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/expotape.htm. But the idea had prob
by strictfp 10y ago
Allegedly, it took him a month - https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/expotape.htm https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/expotape.htm. But the idea had probably been growing on him for several years, while working on very similar projects.
I think this actually supports my idea of letting ideas grow on you before executing them.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoFurther it's a tiny subset of MULTIC project that he worked on for some time. Some of MULTIC design ended up in UNIX. One can argue UNIX's design began as far back as that where he was doing something else but pivoted in new project with weaker hardware.