bigtimber

Thanks for this bit of nostalgia. As a veteran user of DEC computers for most of my career, I really enjoyed this despite some of the omissions that others have pointed out. I could also add some additional thoughts to what else has also been mentioned, including LSI-11 which was a micro version of the PDP-ll. I really liked the orthogonal instruction set. My experience goes back to PDP-8 which were all over the place at Lawrence Livermore National Labs; they were using them basically as terminals for accessing the big CDC-7600/CDC-6600 supercomputer complex there. Some side points on operating systems such as RT-11 and peripherals such as RL01/RL02 might also have been interesting. But this was still a lovely bit of memorabilia, so thanks again! ;-) Oh, I almost forgot about the user group DECUS, a treasure trove of all kinds of goodies, including DECUS-C compiler which we used extensively. And of course MACRO-11 was our main workhorse for assembly language programming on the PDP-11 and LSI-11 for many years.

Putting the fox in the chicken coop?

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See also John Baez's thread at https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/159280129111350067... in which he states: "No. Yitang Zhang did NOT prove the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture. He did not even claim to!"

$paywalled??

Natalie Wolchover's article referring to this is also nice... https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-time-crystal-built-usin...

There were 4 of the then state-of-the-art, fastest in the world, CDC-7600 and CDC-6600 computers installed at Lawrence Livermore Lab (LLL, now LLNL, Lawrence Livermore National Lab) when I worked there during the summer of 1972.

I can't claim to have it on my bookshelf anymore, but DID have the original hardcopy on my bookshelf for many years back in the 70's and early 80's when I was programming some low-level math libraries and needed to refer to some approximation techniques (e.g., Chebyshev for logarithms).

EDIT: oops, just realized that you were referring to a later version of the classic. I was referring to Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions with formulas, graphs, and mathematical tables (1964).

Previous posts have nicely covered almost all of the textbooks and papers I would have mentioned myself, including K&R's _C Programming_, Brooks' _Mythical Man-Month_, Feynman's Lectures, etc. The only glaring omission was any mention of the classic (1965) FFT paper by Cooley and Tukey: "An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series." _Mathematics of Computation_, 19(90), 297–297. doi:10.1090/s0025-5718-1965-0178586-1 (https://www.eit.lth.se/fileadmin/eit/courses/eit085f/Cooley_...) I might also have added the _CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics_ that seems to have been on every working scientists's and engineer's bookshelf (including mine) during the mid-to-late 20th century. Still in print, nearing the 100th edition. Also, some of my old favorite textbooks that I used at University were not mentioned, including Thomas' _Calculus and Analytical Geometry_. I still have my red cloth covered Addison-Wesley 3rd edition, no longer in print, but a much later edition might still be in print.

IEEE member since 1995; joined because my company paid for it (also joined the IEEE Computer Society, ACM and even APS, American Physical Society, at that time for the same reason.) Continued my IEEE membership at my own expense after retiring because I didn't want to lose my @ieee.org alias that I had used for many years, also wanted to continue to have access to publications and articles of interest. With that said, I would not recommend starting an IEEE membership at your own expense unless you can afford it and want to establish yourself in that community. I think they still require a sponsor for membership.

Great snapshot for the turn of millenium. Thanks for posting and triggering the trip down memory lane. Especially nostalgic for me personally as I was in the midst of coding early Windows and OS/2 kernel mode device drivers for scientific instruments, not to mention having written my own multi-tasking RTOS for the 186, at the peak of my career at that time. I remember most of these books, and had dog-eared copies of a few of them (particularly Baker's Device Driver book.) The only other book on Operating Systems that I see missing from this list, and probably would have included at the time, would be Donovan's.

Downloading from the link https://www.bourns.com/pdfs/OnlinePotentiometerHandbook.pdf produces a corrupted copy (many pages missing or out of order.) This is a better link: https://www.bourns.com/docs/technical-documents/technical-li...

Perhaps you could include a comparison with BSTR implementation used extensively in Windows COM interfaces?

especially paywalled links to sources such as WSJ

Actual work location, if not 100% remote.

Yes, the ??? on line 2 is KWH. You can see this clearly at: https://historical.ha.com/itm/explorers/space-exploration/ap...

hate these paywall posts

Fyi, the topic was discussed a few months back in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15163528 after the _Quantamagazine_ article was reprinted in _Wired_.

Been using this for decades; my first boss, a PhD physicist, out of college got me started on using this. It's still being sold today: https://www.amazon.com/National-Computation-Notebook-Inches-...

dang, another paywall

Dupe also paywall.

There is only a shortage of cheap / entry level tech workers. There are plenty of experienced and over-qualified tech workers, but most short-sighted employers don't value older employees.

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