Tom West died recently. He was made briefly famous by a Tracy Kidder book, The Soul of a New Machine.
Reading his story, I remembered that I co-wrote* an essay on the Eagle project, drawing from Kidder's book and interviews with Data General veterans. It was written using MORE 3.1 @1996. I liked the paper and I eventually put a PDF online in 2001. It's still available from my old archived FrontPage web site: The Data General Eagle Super-minicomputer : A project management paper.
The lessons of those days still apply today. Not much has changed ...
Ah memories. This was fun to go back and read.
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