[ih] Review: Yasha Levine's "Surveillance Valley"

[Richard Bennett]

As I recall, a deadline played a crucial role as well. Dudes in garages don’t have deadlines.

> On Jul 5, 2018, at 2:25 PM, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 10:49 AM Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net <mailto:dhc2 at dcrocker.net>> wrote:
> On 7/4/2018 12:16 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
> > You mean the guy who copied Unix, a creation of America’s 11th largest 
> > company at the time?
> 
> and yet, the specifics of who did what and with what, then, describes a 
> classic garage activity.
> 
> I would describe it more as "skunkworks" than garage.
> 
> the only difference worth noting is that the big company was paying 
> their salaries.  in terms of critical components to the event, that 
> point doesn't impress me.
> 
> Ken Thompson wrote the first "Unices" kernel on a cast-off PDP-7. While perhaps antiquated for 1969, is that really something that would have been accessible to an individual? 1st Edition was on a PDP-11/20; almost certainly out of the reach of individuals in the early 1970s. And the fact that they were getting *paid* to work on this is not a small point.
> 
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Richard Bennett
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