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Wisdom from 50+ years in software (Interview)
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The Eunuch Is a Great Example of Collaboration
The eunuch was designed to work on a machine that had limits, so those limits would always be constrained. The original p p seven is extremely limited head, if i remember correctly, eight k, 18 bit words. If you don't have much memory and the machine is intrinsically not very fast, then it enforces a sort of discipline. It encourages you strongly to think about what's the simplest mechanism that will do the job for as many different things as possible. And certainly an awful lot of what went on in the early eunuchs was exactly that. He had some sort of spark in creativity. There's like something in the room. Sometimes.
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