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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes:
> Of course, Will Crowther is best known for his part in writing
> Colossal Cave Adventure, something it seems he does *not* want to talk
> about publicly.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#108 Frank Heart Dies at 89
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#2 Frank Heart Dies at 89

wiki entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther_(programmer)

I first saw copy of adventure at tymshare in the 70s ... they had got it
off stanford sail pdp10 and ported it to vm370/cms. I get a copy and
made it available on IBM internal systems ... people that can prove they
got all points, I would send source. within short time PLI versions
start showing as well as versions with lots more points.

other trivia; his wife nancy worked for IBM in cambridge
(CROWTHER@CAMBRIDG) ... at the IBM Cambridge Science Center and the IBM
side of Project Athena. Both IBM and DEC had provided $25M to project
athena and got deputy/assist directors ... and provided some number of
additional people ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther_(programmer)#Rest_of_career
project athena 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena

CAS was IBM deputy/assist director at Project Athena.  I periodically
mention him for having invented "compare&swap" instruction when he was
working on fine grain multiprocessor locking for CP67 ("compare and
swap" chosen because they are charlie's initials, CAS).  compare and
swap instruction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap#Implementations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS

past posts mentioning multiprocessor and/or compare-and-swap
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
past posts mentioning cambridge science center
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech

for even more drift ... 1999/2000 we were on assignment in Seattle
working with a number of companies on online/internet financial
... including a company that specialized in Kerberos (from project
athena)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)

the company had brought in a new CEO ... who had previous been head of
IBM POK mainframe and then head of IBM Boca PS2/OS2 (some accounts from
that period have him in conflict with head of microsoft).  At the time
the company also had a microsoft contract to do the kerberos
implementation/port for windows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)#Microsoft_Windows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Windows_Authentication

we then have a couple booths at 1999 world-wide retail banking show ...
old press references
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#217 AADS/X9.59 demo & standards at BAI (world-wide retail banking) show
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224 AADS/X9.59 demo & standards at BAI (world-wide retail banking) show

other AADA/X9.59 ref
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.htm

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