From: John Foust via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Does anybody know the etymology of the term "word" as in collection of bits?
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:23:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <166307905748.2133935.14254031960299534298@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220909021227.GZ11929@mcvoy.com>
At 09:12 PM 9/8/2022, Larry McVoy wrote:
>My first job after school, I got to watch Neil toggle in the bootstrap
>stuff at the console. He wasn't Seymour but he was very very good.
>One of the more substantial people I've ever met, I would guess he
>has passed but if he hasn't, he would like this group of people.
He passed away in 2007:
https://www.msthalloffame.org/neil_robert_lincoln.htm
Lincoln died on Jan. 26, 2007, at age 69. He was a member of the American
Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics and holds nine U.S. patents for
computer hardware. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the Institute of
Electronics and Electrical Engineers, a National Lecturer of the
Association for Computer Machinery and on the Advisory Committee
on Science and Technology Centers for the National Science Foundation.
- John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-13 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-09 1:33 Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-09 2:12 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-13 14:23 ` John Foust via TUHS [this message]
2022-09-09 2:45 ` George Michaelson
2022-09-16 5:55 ` Marc Donner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-09-11 13:30 Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-11 15:08 ` John Cowan
2022-09-11 15:30 ` Bakul Shah
2022-09-11 15:45 ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-11 16:20 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-09-09 19:39 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2022-09-09 20:27 ` Bakul Shah
2022-09-09 21:12 ` Henry Bent
2022-09-09 21:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-09-09 18:46 Norman Wilson
2022-09-10 1:35 ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-09 17:26 Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-08 21:16 Noel Chiappa
2022-09-08 21:24 ` Dan Halbert
2022-09-08 18:20 Noel Chiappa
2022-09-08 19:28 ` Jim Capp
2022-09-08 16:51 [TUHS] " Jon Steinhart
2022-09-08 16:56 ` [TUHS] " Andrew Hume
2022-09-08 17:28 ` Dan Halbert
2022-09-09 0:00 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-09-09 15:49 ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-09 18:44 ` Bakul Shah
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