Dealers of Lightning (84 page)
225 Article in
New West
:
Johnston, "Will Your Next Home Appliance Be a
Mini-Computer?" in
New West,
3/14/1977, p. 50. Goldman's memo was
dated March
1,
1977.
237 Here's our stuff: Perry & Wallich, p. 68; Alvy Ray Smith, 12/5/97.
245 friendly, direct: Hall, personal communication.
247 Its target users: "The New Lean, Mean Xerox,"
Business Week,
.10/12/81, p. 129.
247 We'll just lose: Spinrad, 10/16/97.
254
Committee for Green Foothills: "Xerox Deal May Settle Dispute on
Coyote Hill,"
Palo Alto Times,
9/21/72, p. 1.
255
The local newspapers: "Xerox Scientists
in
Palo Alto Preparing for
Office of Future,"
Palo Alto Times,
1/24/75, p. 6.
255 The stock: Kearns & Nadler,
Prophets in the Dark,
p. 88.
255 Corporate legend has it: Currie, 6/2/97.
255-256 Odyssey's conclusion: Kearns, p. 87.
263 Potter's visit to PARC: Smith and Alexander,
Fumbling the Future,
p. 168.
huge blow: Kay,
Smalltalk,
p. 32.
Ellenby responded: Geschke, 10/16/97.
269
Moses was supposed to: Jacobson & Hillkirk, p. 75.
270
We are being out-marketed ..
.
within this company: Smith & Alexander, p. 197; Kearns & Nadler, p. 100.
270
The architecture of information: Smith & Alexander, p. 201.
271
this part of the demonstration: Ellenby, 10/15/97.
276 The small fonts: Kay,
Smalltalk,
p. 35.
278
The place . . . just sort of drifted: Kearns & Nadler, p. 103.
279
He'd come into my office: McCreight, 10/7/97.
281 He chose to buy time: Smith & Alexander, p. 244.
285-286 Carter would
hop
...
we don't act on hunches: Kearns & Nadler,
pp. 40^1.
287 Wenrik tested it against the judgments: Smith & Alexander, p. 213.
Chapter 20: The Worm That Ate the Ethernet
291 The black hole of computer science:
Bert
Sutherland, 4/14/97.
293 PUP "inspired" TCP/IP: Hafner
& Lyon,
p. 237.
296
In
the middle of the night . .
.
vampire:
Shoch & Hupp, "The 'Worm'
Programs
—
Early Experience with
a
Distributed Computation," in
Communications of the ACM,
March 1992,
p. 173.
296
Profoundly antisocial act: Ibid.,
p. 173.
297
workers running around: Ibid., p. 176.
298
The embarrassing results: Ibid., p. 176.
Chapter
21:
The Silicon Revolution
302 Create some havoc: Perry & Wallich,
p.
73.
304 This worked fine: Mead, Carver, & Ivan Sutherland, "Microelectronics
and Computer Science," in
Scientific American,
Sept. 1977.
304 to perform individual steps: Ibid.
310
Their collaboration: The Mead-Conway text was published in 1979 by
Addison-Wesley as
Introduction to VLSI Systems.
311
I love the metric: Goldberg, Michael, "Fire in the Valley," in
Wired,
June 1994.
Chapter 22: The Crisis of Biggerism
315 I counted
. . .
know them: Kay,
Smalltalk,
p. 27.
315 For any given pursuit: Ibid., p. 26.
315
As Adele kept reminding: Ibid., p. 27.
316
A
remarkable number .
. .
feeling it: Ibid., p. 28.
317
There were no shouting matches .
.
. professional imperatives: Ibid.,
pp. 29-30.
319
a 747 taking off: Thacker in Goldberg, p. 285.
320
He was the son
of
...
on geology: Hafner & Lyon, p. 95.
321
Look, Severo
...
lie to them: Ornstein, 4/15/97.
321
it'll be a long time: Tesler, 4/23/97.
322
It was easy to set: Sosinski, Charles, and Herb Yeary: "Flaming Dorados and Other Stories" in
The Analytical Engine
2.1, February 1995
(Computer History Association of California).
325 Cost of Dorado and comparison to VAX: Thacker in Goldberg, p. 285.
325 Cost of VAX: Bell, Gordon, in Goldberg, p. 45.
325
It was difficult to think: Thacker in Goldberg, p. 285.
326
They were such an efficient heater: Sosinski.
327
Xerox executives made: Perry & Wallich, p. 73.
Chapter 23: Steve Jobs Gets His Show and Tell
You can have your Lufthansa heist: Steven Levy,
Insanely Great
, p. 78.
Joe Wilson had predicted: Jacobson & Hillkirk,
,
p. 58.
331
The answer was to create: George White, 10/6/97.
332
When the company raised $7 million: Michael Moritz,
The Little Kingdom,
p. 271.
332 Raskin recollection of Jobs and Wozniak: Raskin, "Mac and Me," in
The
Analytical Engine
2.4, November 1995 (Computer History Association
of California).
346 you gotta be here in Connecticut: Pake, 5/19/97.
349 office systems will never amount: Hall, private communication.
350-351 my junior on the board: Smith & Alexander, p. 216.
358-359 I projected supreme confidence: Simonyi, 12/4/97.
359
Bill has to see this: Manes & Andrews, p. 166.
360
Gates at PARC: Ibid., p. 167.
360 Gates could read the program: Ibid., p. 167.
360 messenger RNA: Simonyi, 12/4/97.
363 I had not spent.
. .
marketplace: Smith & Alexander, p. 229.
363 I think we have another 914: "The New Lean, Mean Xerox," in
Business Week,
10/12/81, p. 132.
365 When everything in a computer system: David C. Smith in Jeff Johnson
et. al, "The Xerox Star: A Retrospective," in
IEEE Computer,
September 1989, p. 15.
367 It's a good product:
Business Week,
10/12/81, p. 132.
369-370 Everything you've ever done: Belleville in Manes & Andrews, p. 224.
Chapter 2G: Exit the Impresario
381
My response . . . not me: Taylor, 5/1/98.
382
Most people spend: Smith & Alexander, p. 253.
383
You can fucking
resign!-.
Sosinski &
Yeary.
386 Olson conversation with Kearns:
Kearns &
Nadler, p. 104.
389 Xerox could have owned:
Triumph
of the
Nerds,
broadcast on PBS
6/12/96.
397 We didn't want: Stross.
Glossary of Selected Terms
ARPA:
The Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of
Defense, established after the Soviet
Sputnik
launch of 1957 to marshal America's scientific resources in
a
research counterattack. By
the mid-1960s the principal source of funding for computer science
in
U.S.
academia.
ARPANET:
The Pentagon-financed
system
interconnecting incompatible mainframe computers at research centers and universities
across the country; in time evolved into
the
Internet.
ASCII:
The "American Standard Code
for
Information Interchange,"
a table of 128 simple letters, numerals, and other characters, each of
which can be encoded in seven binary digits, or bits; until the emergence of WYSIWYG displays, ASCII
text
was the standard, charmless format of computer display and printing.
Bit:
From "binary digit," the smallest unit of information that can be
read or used by a digital computer.
A
bit can be set to one of two values, often signified by 0 or 1, true or false, or yes or no.