[COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl, and LSD

[Dave Horsfall]

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