illys · HackerTrans

It requires a different way of coding: bug-free is a serious target, as far as it can be approached. It is a permanent concern while coding, with a lot of testing, and releases are hard releases, not agile output. No titanic effort there, just being serious and focused with quality.

illys

2 年前議論

Well, my 2-cent is that you can laugth of everything but not with everybody... So defying the norms with Easter Eggs sent to the wild can be an issue. You have to know your audience to properly chose your level of impertinence.

illys

2 年前議論

Small fix: the IBM System/23 Datamaster was based on Intel 8085, an improved version of the 8080 (binary compatible, more features, requiring less electronics around).

illys

2 年前議論

I love the story... But don't forget this story is the proper selection of events with textual glue and interpretation to make it feel like a novel.

Some statements belong more to the glue than to History, and they should remind us this is a real-life-based * novel *. I especially noted this one: "nobody at IBM had any real experience with [microcomputers]".

IBM senior management was certainly reluctant, but "nobody"... They even had microcomputer products that hit the market:

- IBM 5100 1975, first IBM personal computer

- IBM 5110 1978, 5100 updated for a larger market target

- IBM System/23, under parallel development with the IBM PC and released 1 month before in July 1981: many of the IBM PC features are shared with or taken from it (8-bit Intel processor family 8080 vs. 8088, very same expansion connector, reuse of the electronic expansion cards such as serial, exact same keyboard - just in a different box and with different function keycaps...)

illys

2 年前議論

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, and you don't accept... You might loose two friends since both of them think they are right and will not understand you do not support them.

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