I’ve read some excerpts of this, and it’s pretty good. I liked this description of an OS .. The product itself was a very long string of ones and zeroes that, when properly installed and coddled, gave you the ability to manipulate other very long strings of ones and zeroes.
The whole article is an 80K zip from C R Y P T O N O M I C O N
I’ve read Diamond Age, Snow Crash and Zodiac, also by Neal Stephenson so this is one I keep meaning to get around to (once I’ve read the books that proceed it too).