Been busy the last few days, so no phlogging. To be honest, I should
be busy right now as I'm writing this in the office waiting for a
remote tech to do some router setup.

An update on my reading is all I've got just now, so here it is:

Having worked out the CP rebuild procedure in VM/SP, I've put the
Installation Guide down for the time being. The process itself is
pretty straightforward, maybe half-a-dozen or so steps. I'm drafting a
procedure now, which will end up in the mainframe area of my
gopherspace at some point. The problem with running VM/370 or VM/SP is
that the publically-available documentation is incomplete, which makes
things rather more difficult than necessary :-) Still, kudos to
bitsavers[1] for keeping what there is available. I'm definitely
shouting into the void with that gopher content, but it's for my
reference as much as anybody else's. I've a small pile of notebooks
that are becoming less and less understandable so all that stuff will
end up dumped into gopher too.

Maybe a... what, a week is it? after I received Schismatrix Plus, I
finished the main Schismatrix story last night. Now, as a CS sundog,
I'm kind of expected to say I liked it, and I did! It was my first
Sterling, and I found it pretty good reading. Some of the stuff in
there was way-out, some not too-far-out, and I thought it was an
interesting take on how an extended lifetime might play out.

I kind of got a feeling that the pace increased as the story went on,
and the end felt like a bit of a rush (I kind of felt the same way
about Game of Thrones on TV - I haven't read the books). However, not
so much that it detracted from the overall experience.

I might give the rest of the stories a week or so just to let that one
sink in, then pick it up again.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org