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November 14, 2015
Amdahl Recollection
On 11/13/2015 the NY Times printed the obituary of Gene Amdahl, which prompted this recollection of him. His revolutionary attack on IBM with plug-compatible high-end computers occurred at the time I was most involved in industry forecasting for AD Little. One result was a consulting assignment...
February 24, 2014
A Billion Programmers
When I first wrote programs in 1953, there was no software and few programmers. I entered programs in the computer’s binary language (octal notation) directly into the machine’s registers. And the machine was all mine: there was no operating system to allocate its resources among multiple programs...