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Re: ::scr doesn't have the morlocks
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:56:50PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
> Neal Stephenson uses the Eloi/Morlock analogy in _In The Beginning Was
> The Command Line_, talking about how the geeks (Morlocks) run computer
> systems; and on some level the world. He was talking about operating
> systems, though, and how Windows is only popular because it's used by
> the Eloi and there are lots of them.
> Read the book, anyway, it's good.
For those who don't want to actually go buy the book and haven't
found this already:
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
Michael