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/
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