[COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl, and LSD
Arthur Krewat
krewat at kilonet.net
Sat Nov 16 08:26:44 AEST 2019
On 11/15/2019 4:54 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 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.
How did Amdahl get away with making 360 clones? I would have thought
that IBM would have crushed his bones into dust.
art k.
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