From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:26:44 -0500
Subject: [COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl,
 and LSD
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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.