twoBACK TO BASICS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2001
I spend a lot of time on my website talking about exciting "big picture" stuff like .NET versus Java, XML strategy, Lock-In, competitive strategy, software design, architecture, and so forth. All this stuff is a layer cake, in a way. At the top layer, you've got software strategy. Below that, we think about architectures like .NET, and below that, individual products: software development products like Java or platforms like Windows.
Go lower on the cake, please. DLLs? Objects? Functions? No! Lower! At some point you're thinking about lines of code written in programming languages.
Still not low enough. Today I want to think about CPUs. A little bit of silicon moving bytes around. Pretend you are ...
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