If anyone else has any Daniel Bobrow stories, please send them to me to pass along to his family; his daughter is collecting them.
Stan Sieler via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> writes: > Re: > > >> From: Tony Aiuto <tony.ai...@gmail.com> >> Subject: RIP: Daniel Bobrow >> >> http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary. >> aspx?n=daniel-bobrow&pid=184794881 > > > I worked with Danny for about a year, around 1974, sometime after UCSD put > its B6700 onto the ARPAnet (we were something like the 35th computer). > > The AI community needed a BBNLISP with more addressing space than a DEC-10 > could provide, so they came to the king of virtual addressing: the > Burroughs. > We got the contract to implement BBNLISP, and Danny came to oversee. > > I remember him typing on a terminal, linking UCSD to about 10 other > computers > on the ARPANET, finally linked back to us ... sending a message to himself. > He was demonstrating the lag time each computer added :) > > IIRC, sometime during the project, BBNLISP was renamed INTERLISP. I still > have the wonderful manual, with the great artwork on the cover. Warren > Teitelman (the author) doesn't have his name on the cover. But, the bottom > portion has a guy is operating a meat grinder, with the input being the > letters of "reference manual" in random order, and the output being > "reference manual". Danny explained that Warren Teitelman hadn't gotten > the joke :) > > Danny was funny, quick witted, friendly ... RIP. > > Oh, UCSD LISP? About a week before we released it, DEC (or BBN?) had a > breakthrough and increased the addressability of their virtual memory, > obviating the need for our version :( > > Stan Sieler > >> >>
