On: Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence

[kick]

This post title is a reference to The Soul of a New Machine, which both Cantrill and Frazelle have written posts on:

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/new-golden-age-of-building-wi...

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-sou...

[acomjean → kick]

For those that don't know "Soul of a New Machine" is a book by Tracey Kidder. Its about the team at Data General building a new computer. I was skeptical about this book, but its really quite a good read. (My mom worked at Data General, which is how I ended up with the book)

The book won a Pulitzer prize for non-fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

[sowbug → acomjean]

If you like this book, then you'll also like Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, which is a fictionalized account of an occasionally successful stock trader named Jesse Lauriston Livermore who was born in 1877. It doesn't sound captivating, but it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Opera...

[qntmfred → acomjean]

Both my parents also worked at Data General, and my dad was there all the way through the EMC acquisition. Love that book.