winscape 2194

I have read far to little and indirectly about Boyd; he seems worthy of more reading.

None of those are objective, just different mindsets.

There are several strong computer dialects. Even a small country like Norway has managed to make two distinct dialects; which is an acheivement in non-communication.

I have identified these "dialects" :

TrueBlue Disks called Dasdee, etc. Followed in the trueblue and clone companies. Talks about IPL's, SYSGENs, ABENDS etc.

Route128 MIT-centric, followed by DEC, Prime, DG etc. Now mostly extinct. refers to kernels as "monitor" etc. Was also used by people in the CP-M world. Requires strong theory background to follow this completely.

California Centered on Stanford, and Sun-Mips-SGI, has become pretty mainstream with the advent of Unixen. Now used almost exclusively in academia. Tends to use simpler terms. Redmond Used by this weird upstart company in Washington state. No doubt they will soon change and use the Sun-SGI dialect, just like the rest of us.

Gamers tend to have a persistent "colloquial" name for things. Like saying that Satellite links have bad pings.

Around 1990-1993 there was a move toward language coherence all over the computer world. Many non-followers quickly vanished from the mainstream.

-- mrr