High quality geekery
Oct. 29th, 2006 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenI enjoyed a splendidly spoddish chat with SquareBear & some others last night.
Really well-informed geeks are lamentably rare these days. Far too many young 'uns only know Windows or, maybe, if you're lucky, Windows and Linux. Throw in a bit of BSD and MacOS and that covers 95% or more of under-30s nerddom, I reckon. Only the Olde Phartes now tend to remember 8-bit machines, minicomputers, big iron and machines where a byte wasn't 8 bits or a multiple thereof.
So it is with delight that I have stumbled upon a set of interesting, well-written and informative essays from a writer new to me - InformIt's Dave Chisnall. As it happened, I started with his latest, The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?, which is eerily close to a piece I've had in development for some time now. Thankfully I note that I'm going in some slightly different directions to him. I may still be able to sell it!
But I've been working my way through his pieces for a while now. Pretty good stuff & even the odd embedded gag. We like. Go read. The tiny foetus only graduated in 2003, too! Gah! Kids of today... Don't know they're born... [Cont'd p94. - Ed.]
EDIT: name was misspelt. Oops!
Really well-informed geeks are lamentably rare these days. Far too many young 'uns only know Windows or, maybe, if you're lucky, Windows and Linux. Throw in a bit of BSD and MacOS and that covers 95% or more of under-30s nerddom, I reckon. Only the Olde Phartes now tend to remember 8-bit machines, minicomputers, big iron and machines where a byte wasn't 8 bits or a multiple thereof.
So it is with delight that I have stumbled upon a set of interesting, well-written and informative essays from a writer new to me - InformIt's Dave Chisnall. As it happened, I started with his latest, The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?, which is eerily close to a piece I've had in development for some time now. Thankfully I note that I'm going in some slightly different directions to him. I may still be able to sell it!
But I've been working my way through his pieces for a while now. Pretty good stuff & even the odd embedded gag. We like. Go read. The tiny foetus only graduated in 2003, too! Gah! Kids of today... Don't know they're born... [Cont'd p94. - Ed.]
EDIT: name was misspelt. Oops!
