[TUHS] Managers/architects (was: AIX moved into maintainance mode)

Lawrence Stewart stewart at serissa.com
Fri Jan 20 07:12:53 AEST 2023


> 
> 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



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