12 Nov
2022
12 Nov
'22
6:12 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 10:10 AM Miod Vallat <miod(a)online.fr> wrote:
Bring them in, burn them out, sweat every hour out of them... call it
excellence. Bah
Warner
There was a
guy who worked at DG and contributed a lot of the Motorola
88000 code to GCC whose name I don't remember, although I met him
at a USENIX. If someone else remembers who this is, maybe he can
be tracked down for more info.
I suppose you're referring to Tom Wood here?
P.S. For the youngsters here who've never
heard of it, I highly
recommend Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine" about the
development of the Eclipse. (
https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0316491977/ref=sr_1…
).
It was originally written in 1982 - 40 years ago!
Seconded - definitely a must read; even if technology has evolved a lot
since then, management and human factors have not.