From: krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl, and LSD
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:26:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99f46273-e2a4-4a82-f827-8c00fb48f633@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911160853090.408@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 11/15/2019 4:54 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Computer architect Gene Amdahl was born in on this day in 1922; he had
> a hand in the IBM 704 and the System/360, founded Amdahl Corporation
> (maker of /360 clones), and devised Amdahl's Law in relation to
> parallel processing.
How did Amdahl get away with making 360 clones? I would have thought
that IBM would have crushed his bones into dust.
art k.
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2019-11-15 21:54 dave
2019-11-15 22:26 ` krewat [this message]
2019-11-15 22:42 ` dave
2019-11-16 7:23 ` peter
2019-11-16 16:25 ` clemc
2019-11-17 5:14 ` dave
2019-11-18 16:42 ` clemc
2019-11-18 18:45 ` bakul
2019-11-18 19:19 ` clemc
2019-11-19 20:21 ` peter
2019-11-19 23:17 ` cym224
2019-11-21 19:48 ` dave
2019-11-15 23:19 ` clemc
2019-11-15 23:47 ` krewat
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2018-11-15 22:33 dave
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