From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 08:54:59 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl,
 and LSD
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911160853090.408@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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