[TUHS] Research Ninth Edition Manual (V1) Found

[Arnold Robbins via TUHS]

Arnold Robbins via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> I have a comb-bound 8th Edition manual. BWK got it for me, many years
> ago. (More like decades, at this point. :-)  It's a bit beat up,
> particularly the covers.
>
> It originally belonged to one Rae McLellan, whom I otherwise know
> nothing about...

I asked Doug and Brian:

> From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>
> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 09:55:43 -0400
> Subject: Re: Who was Rae McLellan?
>
> Rae McLellan was a go-to hardware designer and builder. If memory
> serves, he participated in projects like UCDS (Unx circuit design
> system) and TPC (The Phone Company, a novel switch architecture that
> ran the department telephones) and chip design. At one point his
> health declined inexplicably until he realized that his septic system
> was contaminating his well. Rae was one of the old guard that stuck
> with the Labs after many CS people decamped around the year 2000.
>
> Doug

Brian adds:

> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 10:02:36 -0400 (EDT)
> To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>
> cc: arnold at skeeve.com
> Subject: Re: Who was Rae McLellan?
>
> I have a (ever dimmer) memory that Rae also worked with Dave Ditzel
> on the CRISP processors that Dave then carried further when he founded
> TransMeta.  But treat this with a grain of salt.