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Interview with Bill Joy (1984) [pdf]
- mikro2nd 7y agoNeeds a '1984' tag in the title.
- dang 7y agoAdded. Thanks!
- dang 7y agoThread from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4940918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4940918 and a bit from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145982
- DonHopkins 7y agoWow, an interview from Year 1 MIP! Bill Joy’s Law: 2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second https://medium.com/@donhopkins/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-million-instructions-per-second-3a8c92165cfe https://medium.com/@donhopkins/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mil... >The peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time. Specifically, S = 2^(Year-1984), in which S is the peak computer speed attained during each year, expressed in MIPS. -Wikipedia, Joy’s law (computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_law_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_law_(computing) >Introduction >These are some highlights from a prescient talk by Bill Joy in February of 1991. >“It’s vintage wnj. When assessing wnj-speak, remember Eric Schmidt’s comment that Bill is almost always qualitatively right, but the time scale is sometimes wrong.” -David Hough