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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:43:51, jcmo...@mitre.org (Joe Morris) wrote:

> John, I think I'll disagree with you here; my recollection (not parity-
> checked!) is that TS was part of the original design.  It certainly
> was in the original PoO that I worked with in the mid-'60s, although
> I do recall at the time being unable to find anyone who could produce
> a credible suggestion for any siuation in which it could be used.

I have no idea what came first or why.  But this is the chronology of the 
9020:
 
We (MITRE) wrote the specification for the Central Computer Complex (the 
official name of the 9020, commonly referred to as the CCC [1]) in the spring 
and summer of 1963.  The spec pretty much demanded a multiprocessor because 
the guy in charge at FAA had fallen in love with the Burroughs computer used 
in BUIC. (What was it called?  D850?)

The contract was awarded to IBM in the summer of 1964 and the first one, a 
9020A all 360/50 system, was delivered to the National Aviation Facilities 
Experimental Center (NAFEC) near Atlantic City in the summer of 1965, and 
software development started.

[1]  I named the CCC.  It happened this way.  In February of 1963 we started 
work on the spec for a computer for the new system.  We quickly realized we 
had a problem discussing it because we didn't have a name for it.  There was a
meeting in Howard Kirshner's office in MITRE/Bedford to decide on a name.  
Various options were kicked around but none made a satisfying acronym.  My 
boss was politically very liberal, a declared socialist, ACLU member, etc., 
while I was a Goldwater conservative.  We regularly good-naturedly sparred and
needled one another about politics.  Suddenly I had an inspiration, looked my 
boss in the eye, and said, "If we name it the Central Computer Complex then we
could call it the CCC."  He immediately picked up on the joke (the Civilian 
Conservation Corps was a Roosevelt New Deal program) and supported my 
suggestion.  We carried the day and the CCC was in due course followed by the 
CDC, the DCC, the ACC, and the TCCC.

-- 
    John Varela