Vernor Vinge, Neal Stephenson, and also some lesser authors dohttps://twitter.com/averykimball/status/1437591958772457473 …
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Replying to @Oberon_MTG @MorlockP
Vinge was a well regarded Computer Science professor at SDSU with an SF writing hobby. He was spending a lot of time in text editors before word processing had become a common term and had ingrained habits before major apps like Wordstar became widely available.
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Replying to @CRainsZombie @MorlockP
Oh interesting. I just started reading A Fire Upon the Deep and the name caught my attention. I was half-way through before I found out it was written almost 30 years ago.
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Replying to @Oberon_MTG @MorlockP
When Vinge discusses the prospect of millennia of code accretion layers in systems, it's extrapolating from stuff he's observed up close.
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