Re: Problem of Building project converted from Objective C
Re: Problem of Building project converted from Objective C
- Subject: Re: Problem of Building project converted from Objective C
- From: "Jerry W. Walker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:21:22 -0400
Hi, Ian,
Thanks so much for your response to my essentially facetious message.
THOSE WERE GREAT REFERENCES!! I really enjoyed reading the second
one, even though I didn't have the time for it today. It was just
difficult to stop reading.
The people on those teams have the right to far greater historical
recognition then they ever got, if not only for that machine's
architecture. Unfortunately, other companies are still unjustifiably
claiming credit for many of those advances. And since they've got a
wider commercial audience, it's been difficult to fight the
disinformation.
Regards,
Jerry
On Apr 6, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Ian Joyner wrote:
On 06/04/2006, at 11:17 PM, Jerry W. Walker wrote:
Oooh. Ian, you're bringing back fond memories. I only wish I'd
spent more time with the B5000 series and less time with the
Burroughs' sales staff. :-)
Arrrrrrgh, now that's twisting the knife. The Burroughs' Sales
Prevention Force was what it was known as. The story was that they
would actually vet customers to see if they could provide a
suitable environment to put the machine in. Another story about
Edsger Dijkstra was that when he was in the plant at Pasadena saw
how fast the B5000 could compile ALGOL (in seconds) that he wanted
three for his university in Eindhoven. Then CEO Ray McDonald put a
stop to that because he did not want to set up a support centre in
Europe.
There's a nice article ;-) on the B5000 on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B5000
and for a great first-hand paper on the development of the B5000:
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html
mostly about Bob Barton, who was one of Alan Kay's influential
professors, and a nice aside about Don Knuth.
--
__ Jerry W. Walker,
WebObjects Developer/Instructor for High Performance Industrial
Strength Internet Enabled Systems
email@hidden
203 278-4085 office
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