[HN Gopher] Hints and Principles for Computer System Design, But...
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       Hints and Principles for Computer System Design, Butler Lampson
       1983
        
       Author : mbkv
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2021-10-06 11:13 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | AlbertCory wrote:
       | Butler was a legend at Xerox, for many things besides speaking
       | fast, but he did inspire "the milli-lampson" a unit of speaking
       | speed. Only Butler could talk at 1000 milli-lampsons.
       | 
       | I only spoke to him once, and actually I don't think it was all
       | that fast -- maybe 200 milli-lampsons. He probably slowed it down
       | for my benefit.
        
       | Rochus wrote:
       | This is not his 1983 paper, but an updated version (May 14,
       | 2021).
       | 
       | The abstract states:
       | 
       |  _This new long version of my 1983 paper suggests the goals you
       | might have for your system-- Simple, Timely, Efficient,
       | Adaptable, Dependable, Yummy (STEADY)--and techniques for
       | achieving them--Approximate, Incremental, Divide & Conquer (AID).
       | It also gives some princi- ples for system design that are more
       | than just hints, and many examples of how to apply the ideas._
       | 
       | Lampson, for those who don't have heard of him, was one of the
       | main forces behind the Xerox Alto (first PC with a graphical user
       | interface) and WYSIWYG text editing (just to name a few, see
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Lampson).
        
         | cratermoon wrote:
         | He also wrote one of the best early papers on access control:
         | Butler W. Lampson. 1974. Protection. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 8,
         | 1 (January 1974), 18-24.
         | DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/775265.775268
        
         | pjmorris wrote:
         | Lampson keeps a link to his latest revision of this classic
         | paper[0] on his website at Microsoft Research. I read the
         | original, but haven't managed to wade through the revision. You
         | could say that he's developed a few more hints over the course
         | of his career.
         | 
         | [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-
         | us/research/publication/hints-a...
        
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