| Blathering for Sunday, 23 March 2008 |
09:57: "Gary Kildall and the company he founded to sell CP/M, Intergalactic Digital Research, soon became very wealthy. It turned out that a lot of microcomputer companies needed an operating system, and Gary had designed it in a way that separated all the computer-specific bits (called the BIOS) from the rest of the OS. Kildall also did this out of laziness because he didn't want to keep rewriting the whole of CP/M for every new computer. The moral of this story is that being lazy can sometimes be a spectacularly smart thing."
09:57: Intergalactic Digital Research is a great company name...
09:58: From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems
22:33: I hate how some stores in the US demand to see a receipt for the stuff you just bought. The main offenders seem to be Frys and Costco. Unfortunately these searches are legal, which just makes them more annoying.
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