mike.lamart...@mcleansoft.com (Mike La Martina) writes: > After reading the story of Compare and Swap for, lo, all these many years, I > am sorry but I must ask. > > Charlie who?
aka Charlie's initials are CAS ... part of the effort was to choose mnemonic (compare-and-swap) that were Charlie's initials http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp IBM funds MIT project athena for $25M and then DEC funds another $25M, both IBM and DEC get an associate director of Project Athena. Charlie leaves the science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech and becomes the IBM associate director of Project athena (pg 10): http://simson.net/ref/athena/Q_and_A_Draft_October31_1986.pdf (don't list a DEC person yet, pg3 list financing of $25M by both IBM & DEC) another ref at the bottom here http://tech-insider.org/unix/research/1987/0901.html In late80s/early90s time-frame one of the things we got to do was IBM periodic review Project Athena (at that time both DEC and IBM had assosciate directors). One of the visits was in the middle of designing Kerberos cross-domain support (that I was asked to sit thru). decade later was sitting thru industry presentation on SAML implementation for coalition forces ... and pointed out that their SAML message flows were the same as the Kerberos cross-domain message flows. http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/ http://www.kerberos.org/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Language Other trivia ... with the legal actions and 23June1969 unbundling announcement ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle IBM also cuts way back on its univ. programs and educational discounts. With the winding down of these efforts in the early 80s, IBM creates the univ. ACIS organization, initially has $300M fund to support univ. activities. Some of it goes to fund much of BITNET (& EARN) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet where this (ibm-main) mailing list originated. $25M for Project Atena comes from ACIS. There is also $50M for CMU (MACH ... shows up in NeXT and apple/OS when Jobs returns; camelot, andrew filesystem, etc) and many other univ. programs. one of the biggest users of kerberos is: https://software.intel.com/sites/manageability/AMT_Implementation_and_Reference_Guide/WordDocuments/microsoftactivedirectoryandkerberossupport.htm originally implemented under contract by small corporation in seattle area that specialized in kerberos. The CEO of the small corporation at the time, had previously been head of the POK mainframe division ... and later was head of the PC division and involved in some of the OS2/windows issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
