The Sun and Software
It’s not about Sun company but about Sun, the star. It influences people and CPU as well. Either a single CPU or a CPU bundle in a multiprocessor or a multi-core hardware can be considered as a digital analog of the Sun that influences software. A phrase “A bug shines brighter than a thousand suns” can be attributed to an explosion inside OS kernel nucleus ruining the work of hundreds of users.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareAstrology.com -
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December 27th, 2008 at 10:13 am
[…] Sun represents the inner self of a software, its algorithm, its essence. “I see!” says a scientist or an engineer at the moment of insight and devises a clever algothrithm to illuminate a difficult problem. Sun also symbolizes the outer software behaviour seen by its users which can be destructive sometimes (see my previous post, Sun and Software). […]