[COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl, and LSD
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sat Nov 16 07:54:59 AEST 2019
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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