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I actually just finish reading that and it's what lead me to this!
by mjbellantoni 12y ago
I actually just finish reading that and it's what lead me to this!
- greenyoda 12y agoHere's a picture of the Eclipse MV/8000 "Eagle", the machine they were building in the book: http://www.foxdata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Data-General-Eclipse-MV8000.jpg http://www.foxdata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Data-... "The Soul of a New Machine" is a great book, by the way, even if the technology in it is a bit old at this point. Hackers of hardware and/or software should definitely read it. Another interesting book about the creation of a large system is "Show-stopper", by G. P. Zachary, which describes the building of Windows NT.
- peterfirefly 12y agoDoes anybody know more about FHP (the Fountainhead Project) than what little I can read here: http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/fhp.html http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/fhp.html
- greenyoda 12y agoHere's an account of the Fountainhead Project written by Rich Wingerter, who was a programmer working on the project: http://www.sonic.net/~richw/FHP.html http://www.sonic.net/~richw/FHP.html While searching for this I also found an interesting paper on the Eagle project: "Flight of the Eagle: The Birthing and Life of a Super-Minicomputer" (1996) http://www.faughnan.com/papers/eaglecomp.pdf http://www.faughnan.com/papers/eaglecomp.pdf
- PhantomGremlin 12y agoIt's not just computer nerds who thought that The Soul of a New Machine was a great book. Tracy Kidder received the Pulitzer Prize for it. But that Eclipse picture is boring. Here's how a computer should look. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:360-91-panel.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:360-91-panel.jpg