Its also available in "traditional" book form. I bought a copy last spring. $10 Avon Trade Paperbacks. I got mine at B&N while still in Duluth. Its a great read.


On Fri, 29 September 2000, Phil Plumbo wrote:

> 
> cool article by Neil Stephenson at http://www.cryptonomicon.com - see "In
> the Beginning" - which describes operating systems by analogy to cars, and
> other literary devices. He likens Linux to an M1 tank, "made of space-age
> materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the
> other". BeOS: The Batmobile. It's been done before, but never this well. A
> techno-literate poet's view.
> 
> 
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