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The UNIX file system as a recursive function

Posted on January 1, 2012 by admin

Ignoring “write” operations, for the moment, a file system is just an implementation, a concrete manifestation, of a map from file names to file contents. A UNIX style file system complicates the story because file names are “paths” through a … Continue reading →

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Apple’s A5 chip made in Austin

Posted on December 17, 2011 by admin

Although I think it might have been designed here too. The A5 processor – the brain in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 – is now made in a sprawling 1.6 million square feet factory in Austin owned by Korean … Continue reading →

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Dennis Ritchie

Posted on October 12, 2011 by admin

Truly a brilliant engineer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie  

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