About 20 years ago it was well-known that the cheap Cisco stuff on eBay was authentic in that there were say, two shifts worth of running the production line for Cisco and a partial shift for unofficial production sold outside of Cisco authorized channels and with no profit going to Cisco.
To add to this: they had $750 million in 1963 dollars, in parts and no shipping computers; inventory control was so bad that they had to have guys with clipboards to physically go into the warehouse and count parts.
They announced it and started getting a huge number of orders; IBM hired 1000 people a month and kept up that pace of hiring for 5 years.
Cost per watt 23 years ago was likely $5-$10/watt for the panel plus the cost of the inverter etc. the Honda would be much simpler and was about $1000 USD and self contained
That's not true in general especially if you weight it with population in mind, such as the wet states of NJ, PA, MD etc. that have more population; though there are areas where the states have passed laws concerning water rights where it is true(CO, WY).
I don't know of evidence that he did. But Dijkstra left us a famous quote:
"LISP has jokingly been described as “the most intelligent way to misuse a computer”. I think that description a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts."
This is obviously a compliment; it even mentions that word.
Even a less positive remark than this would still be resounding compliment from a computer scientist who said things such as that BASIC causes irreparable brain damage!
So count this as a piece of evidence that he liked Lisp.
Lisp emphasizes structured approaches, and from the start it has encouraged (though not required) techniques which avoid destructive manipulation. There is a lot in Lisp to appeal to someone with a mindset similar to Dijkstra.
"I must confess that I was very slow on appreciating LISP’s merits. My first introduction was via a paper that defined the semantics of LISP in terms of LISP, I did not see how that could make sense, I rejected the paper and LISP with it."
Even McCarthy initially rejected the idea that the Lisp-in-Lisp specification could simply be translated into working code so that an interpreter pops out; at first he thought Steve Russel was misunderstanding something.
I don’t see why not; over ten years ago the OpenVZ vm code had a way to rsync a container across the network; syncing everything; then only the pages that had changed since the start of sync; then the final pages that had changed in the last few seconds. There was a tiny delay to pause the container on the old and start on the new host; but I am sure that this could be reduced further.
That is not the core, however; the core means the central pieces of a large telecom, the part that handles all the needed data to set up say, 10,000 or more calls per second.
For sure. The implicit trust that participants on the PSTN appear to give to each other, imparts a certain amount of undue influence to the constellation of dodgy systems interconnected to it.
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