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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
I'm reading yet another mystery penned by Georgette Heyer -- Why Shoot A Butler? ...
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Thanks! Wow, she wrote a lot of books. And most of them seem to be $7.99 at Amazon--that's a price a
miser frugal person like me can almost live with.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Oh, my. Let's also toss in Smalltalk, and concepts that Apple brought to fruition in the Macintosh. (I believe a number of PARC folks wound up in the Mac development group at Apple.
I tended to describe Xerox as a company known for developing technology other companies turned into useful products.
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Dennis
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And XNS network protocols. But that was a case of open systems (TCP/IP, etc.) rightfully winning out over the proprietary ones.
I interviewed with the Smalltalk group while I was there. At the time, I really didn't get what they were telling me about.
I ended up at Apple too, working for Mark Gealy. He was the Clearinghouse guy at PARC, and went to Apple to do distributed systems. That was about 1988. Unfortunately, those were kind of dark days at Apple. John Sculley was the CEO. A lot of the fun was gone. I only stayed about 18 months.
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
...I found The Inferno to be the most interesting part. Not that I'm checking it out as a future real estate investment, I hope.  |
Anyway, to get back to the thread topic
I just started
The Pigtailed Heart. The preface was kind of a turn-off for me because if was a little too graphic for my taste, then the first chapter or two started off kinda slow, but I'm glad I stuck with it, because now it looks like it might live up to my expectations based on the blurb and reviews. In other words, another "Chinatown".
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Originally Posted by Iridal
...But I'm glad you still like us girls enough to watch things bounce around while we're running  ... |
I'm going to take a cold shower now.