JohnMashey

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   by JohnMashey 5y ago

   In 2007, Vinge told me he was planning to write story of Pham & Anne's crusade against the Emergents ... a few years later, when that hadn't appeared, I asked him about it ... he said it was too depressing. (People found Deepn
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   by JohnMashey 5y ago

   Software archaeology: I wrote most of this program ~1970 in S/360 assembly language, using w24-bit addressing (&I used the high 8-bits for flags), ~45 years later, it was still getting occasional use. https://en.wikipedi
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   by JohnMashey 5y ago

   As a CS professor, Vernor was always familiar with then-current computing researcher(s) and practice, then extrapolated into stories. Hence: 1981 Arpanet => True Names' cyberspace, and lookahead to issues of identity and privacy 199
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   by JohnMashey 5y ago

   An interesting theme unmentioned so far here appears in Fire.., Children… & (somewhat) in Deepness…: technology progress and it’s possible acceleration depending on the information you have. Level of civilization tech has fallen (or nev
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   by JohnMashey 5y ago

   1) In a 2004 article for ACM Queue magazine, I couldn't resist excerpting the software archaeology bit as a an introductory section: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039532 and of course, as an ancient Unix person,