Blog Archive: December 2024
"The day the music died..."
On January 1st, 2002 In Technology
"The day the music died..."
What hath venture capital wrought?
dateline 2000: Way too much money chasing to many bad deals. Way too
much money put into marginal or even bad ideas. Insane valuations.
Insane investments.
dateline 2002: many, many, many failed startups. everyone is running
scared. M&A has slowed or stopped. IPO's have
SOC's coming like a train - woo hoo linux
On January 1st, 2002 In Technology
System-on-chip cpu's are coming like a train. The first one I spent time
with with Motorola's 8xx line, the
860, 850 and 823. These chips had
all the peripherals on the chip on one big melange. Static memory interface
for flash, SDRAM interface for memory, an MMU, serial ports and built in ethernet.
Needless to say it ran linux well, thanks