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Article #620170Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 04:07
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 04:07
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Les Comeau was at MIT/CTSS and then came over to IBM science center when
it formed end of 1964. past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
He then came up with idea of virtual machines and also made observation
about Atlas paging known to be not working well.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#75 A Computer That Never Was: the IBM 7095
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#79 thrashing,was Re: A Computer That Never Was: the IBM 7095
late 60s he left the science center and went to (IBM) gburg. Future
System had something like 13-14 sections,
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Les "owned" FS "interconnect" section and my wife reportedly directly to
him. She represent interconnect in FS archiecture meetings ... and has
made the observation that many of the sections had lots of academic
ideas ... but had little or no idea how to actually implement anything
("no beaf there"). Of course, I've periodically commented that I
continued to work on 360/370 that period and periodically would ridicule
FS.
Later when we were doing HA/CMP
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
Les had retired from IBM and moved back to Boston area (buying tug boat
and making over to house boat in Boston Harbor). He was director of Mass
General & Harvard Medical datacenters and also formed a software company
with some former people at the science center. We eventually
subcontracted a lot of HA/CMP implementation to his company. He recently
passed 30Nov2017
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=187597624
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