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Read his book in the early 90s, as result of a presentation he's given in Chicago. Working on SUN Sparcstations running Solaris, at the time, made his entire st
by netfortius 4y ago
Read his book in the early 90s, as result of a presentation he's given in Chicago. Working on SUN Sparcstations running Solaris, at the time, made his entire story extraordinarily exciting for the much younger me, and was one of the deciding factors to drop all that I was doing (had a PhD in engineering, and was using the computers for math modeling of fluid dynamics), go back to school, get my CS degree and move onto a completely different professional world. Thank you, Cliff!
Note: never liked his Silicon Snake Oil book :(
- CliffStoll 4y agoAnd you’re very welcome, NetFort. Sparcstations? Oh my - zippy little guys that outgrew the VME crates of earlier Sun boxes. Like you, I loved the astonishing speeds of new computers - 25, 50, even 100MHz clocks. And in such small packages — why all that power could fit in an office!