“I had a lot of control over the things I did, and the price was a lot of pressure. If I spent only a sixty-hour week, I felt intensely guilty.” He told himself that he was having the time of his life. During his second year at Special Systems, he began to remind himself of this with some regularity. “Josh,” he would say to himself, “you’re designing the sexy machines.” The dialogue with himself continued when he joined the Eclipse Group and began working on Eagle. “You’ve always revered the people who built the NOVA and the PDP-11. Now you’re one of them. You’re the guy you always wanted to
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