God, I had a manager who was the worst manager I ever had who was the last one to stay at Transmeta to turn off the lights. Between working there and working at DEC he could boast that he'd supervised both Dave Cutler and Linus Torvalds.
One time I had to unravel a race condition and he seemed pissed that it took a few days and when I tried to explain the complexity he told me his name was on a patent for a system that would let several VAXes share a single disk and didn't need a lecture.
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