Linux Computers

CCI Power 6/40: one board, a megabyte of cache, and an attitude...

Center meeting at 4pm in 2C-543.

Civilization, as we know it, will end sometime this evening.
See SYSNOTE tomorrow for more information.

COBOL is for morons.
                -- E.W. Dijkstra

Cobol programmers are down in the dumps.

Coding is easy;  All you do is sit staring at a terminal until the drops
of blood form on your forehead.

Comparing software engineering to classical engineering assumes that software
has the ability to wear out.  Software typically behaves, or it does not.  It
either works, or it does not.  Software generally does not degrade, abrade,
stretch, twist, or ablate.  To treat it as a physical entity, therefore, is
misapplication of our engineering skills.  Classical engineering deals with
the characteristics of hardware; software engineering should deal with the
characteristics of *software*, and not with hardware or management.
                -- Dan Klein

COMPASS [for the CDC-6000 series] is the sort of assembler one expects from
a corporation whose president codes in octal.
                -- J.N. Gray

... computer hardware progress is so fast.  No other technology since
civilization began has seen six orders of magnitude in performance-price
gain in 30 years.
                -- Fred Brooks

Computer programmers do it byte by byte.