[COFF] Lynn Conway, RIP

[Larry McVoy]

Reading more about her, what a substantial person, I knew that in the 
1980's but what a force.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 06:47:47PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I did not know about the trans part of the story.  Go her.  It's a loss
> for all of us.
> 
> I can relate to the MOSIS part of the story.  And I think it brings
> in John Ousterhout's work on Magic.  We used Magic at Wisconsin where
> I and another student laid out, simulated, and had fabbed at MOSIS, a
> cache controller.  We did _everything right, we simulated it, it worked,
> sent it off to get fabbed, it came back and it did not work.
> 
> I looked and looked and looked and what it was?  I did not pull ground
> to a pad.  The simulator just assumed that you did that and did not
> test for that.
> 
> Live and learn.  Mead and Conway were the bible at that point in time.
> Much respect to both of them.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 08:51:24PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> > There seems to be some confusion, but I've heard enough sources now
> > that I believe it to be confirmed. Notably, faculty at UMich EECS have
> > shared that it was passed to them internally.
> > 
> > RIP Lynn Conway, architect of the VLSI revolution and long-time
> > transgender activist. She apparently died from heart failure; she was
> > 86. http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2024/06/11/lynn-conway-january-2-1938-june-9-2024/
> > 
> >         - Dan C.
> 
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