Tools of the trade.
The science fiction writer Neal Stephenson compares a computer operating system to a builder's drill. In an essay on his website, he maintains that, like the Hole Hawg drill, anything less powerful than the Unix system can only be considered a toy. He argues that Microsoft's attempt to make all th...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 128; no. 4441; pp. 41 - 43 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
June 21 1999
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| Sumario: | The science fiction writer Neal Stephenson compares a computer operating system to a builder's drill. In an essay on his website, he maintains that, like the Hole Hawg drill, anything less powerful than the Unix system can only be considered a toy. He argues that Microsoft's attempt to make all the operating systems that its application software runs on may be a futile exercise. Stephenson's essay can be located at < http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html >. |
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