At 10:08 -0400 on 05/13/2008, Daniel McLaughlin wrote about Re:
Mainframe programming vs the Web:
While we're speaking of books we no longer have, but wish we did, I vote
for "The Adolescence of P1".
Or "Valentina: Soul in Sapphire " or either edition of "When Harlie
was One". All are about Sentient Computer Programs that roam the Net
(before the Internet even existed).
As for P1, if you are willing to spend under $4.50 there are a large
number of copies on the Amazon Market Place for under $0.50 with a
$3.99 S+H charge. I still have my original copy in my Computer SF
Collection (along with Valentiana and both versions of Harlie). P1 is
fun since it is based on a thinly disguised version of the IBM
DOS/360 Operating System.
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