Gordon Bell, Nomograph

Here's an interesting collection of papers on Computer Structures : Principles and Examples by one of those important old men who ended up at MSFTs Bay Area Research Center the acronym of which makes up for a tired echo of Xerox's 70ies thing. Before that he was at Carnegie Mellon and at DEC where hed did development and architecture on PDPs and VAXen, the hardwarez so important for early Unix development and microprocessor architecture. It's a pity these poeple want or need MSFT funding to do whatever they still contribute these days.

You might want to look at this nomograph that Bell did for digibarn.com: One thing we here at the DigiBarn are struck with day in day out is what our visitors declare as their first "imprinted" computer. There is a pretty strong correlation between age and the computers most enthusiasts first identified with. Gordon Bell has encapsulated this in an ingenious manner. This indicates clearly that I for example am and will probably stay a microcomputer person. But since by accident I used a modem within 1 year of owning my first personal computer (C=64) I became a network person too.

Gordon Bell predicts home and body area networks by 2010. This prediction is based on his own law.

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