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Well.. I still want to read the book. I'm a sucker for a well crafted story about old hardware from the days when technology gods walked the earth. I'm sure E
by retrocryptid 4y ago
Well.. I still want to read the book. I'm a sucker for a well crafted story about old hardware from the days when technology gods walked the earth.
I'm sure Ethernet's market domination is because the spec wasn't owned by a single company, and nothing to do with it's technical merits. After IBM's SNA, people seemed paranoid of a networking spec being owned by a single company. Do you know if Datapoint thought about that and whether they tried to build their own equivalent of the DIX consortium?
I also think about SpaceWire / IEEE-1355 / Wormhole Routing and what might have been had we adopted systems where compute power could be easily upgraded.
Oh! The good old days when everything was possible!
- AlbertCory 4y agoon DataPoint: my hero (sort of) Matt Feingold spends a summer internship at DataPoint. As far as he (and I) could tell, people still thought in terms of "account control" back then. There's actually a book on DataPoint (and almost every other company from way back when). I read them so you don't have to :)