More antidotes to the memory manager nostalgia: - O'Reilly had been in business for thirteen years, had been publishing X11 manuals with animals on the cover f

More antidotes to the memory manager nostalgia: - O'Reilly had been in business for thirteen years, had been publishing X11 manuals with animals on the cover for three years, and had just published the first edition of Programming Perl - Python existed in some form (for two years already!), but no one had ever heard of it until the Grail browser four years later, which no one has heard of now - the Video Toaster for the Amiga was a year old. So was Photoshop (on the Mac). NIH Image (also Mac) was even older. Frame grabbers were already well established in scientific imaging. Array processors were a thing (the one I saw was for the PC), as the kids say, if you had the budget for one - IRC was three years old