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(written on Apr 24, '83) MID MAY - MID AUG '82 (3 months)
[noted to left in green ink] 1st half (WHERE TO LIVE) [/note] THIS BOOK COVERS "DECISION" TO STAY IN SEATTLE + GETTING OUT OF [noted to left in green ink] 2nd half (WHAT TO DO) [/note] COBOL AND INTO SOMETHING ELSE, DECIDING ON SORT IN C (as of last pg). 8086 MSDOS version must go on, so I'm glad I wrote LTP organized new team, esp Bob - 8080/86, Larry - C + v 5.0, and oversaw consolidation, BUT (TO ME:)
[noted to left of 1-3 in green ink) NEAT BOOKS FIRST HALF [/note] 1. Implementing high level features in 8086/MSDOS Version is uninteresting since product has been released to distribution unline Apple BASIL [TRANS?] SORT and its design are nearing end of their lives. New features provide only marginal usefulness. 2. Writing a whole new 68000 compiler is uninteresting since - it just makes use of better architecture (big addr space allows big tables + fast machine code) BUT THIS IS ALL. NO NEW USEFULNESS. JUST SPEED + CAPACITY. - COBOL is archaic, not state of the art "productivity" language - Grandiose development tool with compiler, editor + runtime is jsut for programmers. Small MKT! 3. Microsfot not committing hot people to it, and I didn't like working iwth Larry, Yasnki, Bob or Steve.
So it's not where I want to go. Even if they are willing to pay for it, since 1. 8086 Cobol has no future. 2. Microsoft will acquire 68000 Cobol [marked out] - Larry is only one who knows code well enough to make 68000 right 3. I'm not emotionally into it.
Not about Microsoft thrust. Cobol data types aren't like Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Basic or MFS CAN'T BE PART OF MERGE EFFORT Replaced by Business Basic? RM Cobol on 370s + 4300s now
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CONLUSION: Don't think about where to live. That will be decided on basis of what I want to do. BASED ON:
RED [noted to left in blue ink] Apr 21, '83 (30 YEARS OLD) FEELS LIKE THIS PASSED AND CLOSED. OF TOO. [/note] [noted to left in red ink] SO LET GO OF O.C. + COBOL [/note] [noted in green ink] turning points! Pre-Seattle decision 1. go for the job 2. go for one place to work with others, to have friends 3. And I was not sold on SF. Mid-May decision [note to left in green ink] 1. where to live [/note] 1. Anti SF after trip to Chip 2. Pro SF 3. Anti SF after meeting Bob
2. Remainer of this book I thought about what to work on ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BLUE A [noted in green ink] THIS BOOK SETS UP FOR BROWN [/note] Mid - Aug thru Sept transition (next book) Anti S.Cal (SD for first time) And realized I should go for the work here and forget SF on weekends. Remainder of book dealt largely with Finance, investment + stocks.
+ DRUG-INDUCED ANALYSES OF PEOPLE 3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------B NOTES [noted in green ink]BRING ALL 3 GOALS TOGETHER EXPLICITLY + STRONGLY [/note] December motivated some note son LA/SF/SEA which I put in binder ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------C BROWN [noted in green ink] RESOLVE GOALS: GROW BY STEPS. USE GOALS' CARD. [/note] Feb 21 - Apr 1st -FINANCE -WHAT FUNCTION I WANT - WHERE TO LIVE (ANTI SF)
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SAT May 22, 1982
Hello, again. It's been 3/8 of a year since I stopped writing and things are moving slowly enough that I think I ought to write again.
My primary problem is where to move next. And what to do in general, and specifically. The work since Fall of 1980 when the current 3 year period began is interesting and now that I'm away from O.C. + LA, I feel I should review my writings. There are 4 books namely:
1) Change from Prog to Inv 8/80-11/80 2) Impl of trading + BASIC code 11/80-6/81 3) Summer of 1981 4) Autumn of 1981
Note that the first one actually starts a little before Fall '80, but that is when the period really begins, when Genentech goes public.
