part 02 · 7 of 7 written
Ideas that won.
Not the best ideas. The ones adequate, available and cheap enough to spread.
For a separate operational view of time, ownership and team activity, see this Monitask guide.
pipeline.sh $ cat access.log | awk | sort
# text as the universal joint
# text as the universal joint
entries
All seven.
- 7 minPipes, and the decision that everything would be text
- 7 minPacket switching against the circuit
- 7 minThe relational model against the alternatives it actually had
- 7 minHierarchical file systems, and what they replaced
- 7 minWhy version control went distributed
- 7 minVirtual memory, and when it stopped being controversial
- 7 minGarbage collection: from unacceptable to default in forty years
further context
For a primary or institutional reference, see Codd's relational-model paper.
Every claim here carries the source it came from.
The source and its year sit beside the sentence they support. A secondary account is marked as one, and where the record is unclear the entry says so rather than choosing the better story.