The Summer Of 1960 (Time Spent with don knuth) (ed-thelen.org)
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gruseom Aug 17, 2011 | on: The Descriptor: a definition of the B5000 information… | context

This is a follow-up to recent threads/posts:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855500

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855508

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856567

I highly recommend the last one. All of it, not just the linked passage. I doubt I've ever enjoyed reading a technical memoir so much.