Software archaeology is from the prequel, "A Deepness in the Sky".

Ah. Well, I love them both.

Software archaeology is in both =D

I love them both as well. Edit: read the prequel first, imo.

To be honest, that's precisely what had been on my mind.

Did you know Vinge is himself a computer scientist? IIRC, there's a point in A Deepness In The Sky where its implied that the protagonists' interstellar ramscoop ships run a descendant of Unix.

Yeah, I did read that about Vinge somewhere. And I loved that little callout to the unix epoch.

And you know, Git would be the perfect source control system for an interstellar species who various settled systems are separated from each other by light years.

Heh, I'd bet evolutionary pressure means that in the long run, races using DVCS with superior interfaces outcompete ones using Git.