From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A228C21F30 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 04:55:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E0D431E1; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:55:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24DEC431D9 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:55:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id CAD7335EA76; Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:55:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:55:28 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: COFF Message-ID: <20240612025528.GH8271@mcvoy.com> References: <20240612014747.GE8271@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240612014747.GE8271@mcvoy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: BUQ2IPYGT5X6GUIWZDGAEBTPRZBSWK26 X-Message-ID-Hash: BUQ2IPYGT5X6GUIWZDGAEBTPRZBSWK26 X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: Lynn Conway, RIP List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Reading more about her, what a substantial person, I knew that in the 1980's but what a force. On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 06:47:47PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > I did not know about the trans part of the story. Go her. It's a loss > for all of us. > > I can relate to the MOSIS part of the story. And I think it brings > in John Ousterhout's work on Magic. We used Magic at Wisconsin where > I and another student laid out, simulated, and had fabbed at MOSIS, a > cache controller. We did _everything right, we simulated it, it worked, > sent it off to get fabbed, it came back and it did not work. > > I looked and looked and looked and what it was? I did not pull ground > to a pad. The simulator just assumed that you did that and did not > test for that. > > Live and learn. Mead and Conway were the bible at that point in time. > Much respect to both of them. > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 08:51:24PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote: > > There seems to be some confusion, but I've heard enough sources now > > that I believe it to be confirmed. Notably, faculty at UMich EECS have > > shared that it was passed to them internally. > > > > RIP Lynn Conway, architect of the VLSI revolution and long-time > > transgender activist. She apparently died from heart failure; she was > > 86. http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2024/06/11/lynn-conway-january-2-1938-june-9-2024/ > > > > - Dan C. > > -- > --- > Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat