Blogs Books You Should Own: Core Memory

http://www.bit-tech.net/blog/2009/03/10/book-core-memory/

 

Other books you should own: Masters of Doom, the story behind id Studios.

Oh, and The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester.

 

Tiger, Tiger? Wasn't that published under the name 'The Stars My Destination'? That's the title of the copy I have anyway. And you're right, that is a totally awesome book too.

 

While we're on the subject of sci-fi I can heartily recommend "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. One of the best books I've ever read.

 

Borrow please

 

Any Charlie Stross ++recommend

 

I believe Tiger Tiger was simply it's original name before being republished. Or perhaps Stars was the US titles... I think I prefer it in any case. In any case, both of Bester's classics are absolute masterpieces and worth a read by anyone, I actually lent them both out to friends recently who might not normally read SF and they couldn't believe how good they were! I glad bit-tech is frequented by people of such good taste

For a more recent slice of cyberpunk, Richard Morgan's 'Altered Carbon' is fantastic.

 

As far as I recall, Joe doesn't own Masters of Doom, he nabbed it off me once and has been fraudulently living the limelight ever since.

 

That looks like a seriously good book. It's on the list.

 

Fine - no wedding present for you!

 

Too many pictures and not enough words, equations and diagrams in that book by the looks of it.

 

That's what I was thinking =(

 

I used an analogue computer system in a colour separation scanner for lithographic printing. It was the nicest and most 'human' machine/computer I ever operated.

Due to the analogue nature of the components, and the huge integration of the controls, ti certainly had a character of it's own. 'my' machine was individual, subtely different in the way it responded to input and output to others I had occasion to use.

I miss that machine, bizarrely you really got a feeling of empathy with it. Now we are stuck with a few 'os' interfaces and that's it.

 

I worked on a device driver for an Interface Message Processor (aka. an Imp). These were bit-serial devices with a complex hardware buffer reservation scheme that sort of pre-dated routers. The Internet backbone ran on them. They were made by BBN and had blinking lights on the front like all the best sci-fi gear

 

Silicon snake oil - Second thoughts on the Information Highway. also a very good read a book about the internet wrote in 1995 but its funny how relevant it still is now and how things have changed.