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In 1992, I worked for a company that had been founded by Les Comeau (one of the VM/370 authors mentioned in references 8/10/11). Because of that, and because I'
by notacoward 6y ago
In 1992, I worked for a company that had been founded by Les Comeau (one of the VM/370 authors mentioned in references 8/10/11). Because of that, and because I'd worked in some similar technical areas at my previous job, I was absolutely delighted to find that my (not yet) father-in-law had copies of some of those documents, with handwritten notes by the authors. Seeing this reminded me that I need to do something to make sure those get scanned and not lost. It truly was an under-appreciated precursor of many things we now take for granted.