"A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built."
Niklaus Wirth – A Plea for Lean Software
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"A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built." Niklaus Wirth – A Plea for Lean Software Sad news – Niklaus Wirth passed away on January 1st 😢. RIP. https://twitter.com/Bertrand_Meyer/status/1742613897675178347 The NuBus started as an MIT research project and was used in such diverse machines as the NuMachine by TI (originally designed by Western Digital), LMI's Lambda and TI's Explorer Lisp machines, the TI1500 family of Unix servers, Apple's 68k (starting with the Mac II) and first generation PowerPC Macintoshes (7100/8100) and, in a modified version, as expansion bus for the NeXT Cube. |