Paul McLellan recently posted a blog entitled Old standards never die about how seemingly trivial decisions in the past shape the world we live in today. I find it quite thought provoking – what casual and apparently insignificant choices that we are making now will survive far into the future?
For anyone involved in microchip technology, there is a lot more great content at SemiWiki.com
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Reminds me of an article which argues the most expensive mistake that way was the choice of null-terminating strings in C…. the root of untold bugs, buffer overflow attacks, etc etc. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365