On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 17:33:46 -0700, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:

>[email protected] (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
>    <SNIP!>
>
Errrr... https://xkcd.com/1640/

-- gil

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