Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon"

[Chinasaur]

Cryptonomicon (http://homepage.mac.com/chinasaur/Cryptonomicon.html)

If you've never read this, or read any of Neal Stephenson, you owe it to yourself to indulge.

RE: Snow Crash

[Paratima]

Lengthy and somewhat dated, but interesting, if you have an hour or two.

Good reading, but requires one to think, which is a bit tedious. :D All that stuff about paper tape...

"wc" reports 831 lines, 36426 words, 217705 characters. :p This will only be shown as important after reading the article.

[Welnic]

I read that when Stephenson first posted it, it remains the longest piece of text I have ever read at a computer. I have since seen it in a bookstore. But it is not Cryptonomicom. Cryptonomicom is very long even for a novel. :)

[Chinasaur]

Welnic is right as I now recall. :hiya:

This was released as "In the Beginning was the command line.."

A good read anyway

:cheers:

[willy1]

The book was good too!

[Ponky]

I have to agree that is a rather large chunk of text - I scrolled through it - it will have to wait for another day...

The new books, Quicksilver & The Confusion, are fantstic too albeit rather large but well worth the effort.

:D