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Every self-respecting young man in Silicon Valley had considered the fantasy at one time or another. You could be pulling down a six-figure salary at Apple or Oracle you could have two patents registered under your own name . . . . . you could have a division of programmers under your command and i…

But then some muckety-mucks had a meeting and made a decision that any software running on the Falcon had to be able to run on old Omega computers as well - computers that didn't use parallel processing. They installed a new software upgrade, but it didn't support parallel processing. What did all …

But Darrell's reasoning was slightly more subtle,- he recognized that almost all computer geeks got their first look at a computer through some kind of computer game. Darrell believed that games transformed the box from a work tool to a plaything, and thereby burned a positive association into the …

Now the ironmen had always believed in the principle that what made them special was their raw brainpower, not their acquired knowledge. Anybody could study a subject, learn the details, develop expertise. The way they usually talked about it was that their brainpower was indivisible and _transfe…