From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl, and LSD
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 08:54:59 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911160853090.408@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
Weird day...
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.
But we lost Jay W. Forrester in 2016; another computer pioneer, he invented
core memory (remember that, with its destructive read cycle?).
Oh, and LSD was first synthesised in 1938 by Dr. Hofmann of Sandoz Labs,
Switzerland; it had nothing to do with Berkeley and BSD, man...
-- Dave
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2019-11-15 22:26 ` krewat
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2019-11-19 20:21 ` peter
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2019-11-21 19:48 ` dave
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