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From: Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Managers/architects (was: AIX moved into maintainance mode)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:12:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <75EC5F45-3AC0-49DA-9A01-9F39D45603B4@serissa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230119175012.E7E7E18C074@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>


> 
> Bob Taylor? PARC did some _incredibly_ important stuff in his time. Yes, I
> know a lot of the credit goes to those under him (Butler Lampson, Alan Kay -
> not sure if he was in Taylor's group, Boggs, Metcalfe, etc) but he had to
> manage them all. Not sure what his technical role was, though.
> 

Taylor was an extraordinary manager, but neither a programmer nor architect.
I’d certainly add Vic Vyssotsky as manager and technologist from my own experience 
and labs folklore, but I don’t know about programming or architecture.

-Larry


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-19 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-19 17:50 [TUHS] " Noel Chiappa
2023-01-19 18:00 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2023-01-19 18:09   ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-01-20  3:47   ` John Cowan
2023-01-20 16:54     ` [TUHS] FYI: Apple Lisa [source Pascal code] goes “open source” Rich Morin
2023-01-20 17:07       ` [TUHS] " Ron Natalie
2023-01-19 21:12 ` Lawrence Stewart [this message]
2023-01-19 21:30 [TUHS] Re: Managers/architects (was: AIX moved into maintainance mode) Douglas McIlroy

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