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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <ly...@garlic.com> wrote:
> 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.

http://www.iron-spring.com/FreeStuff/Adventure.zip


> 
> 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
> 



-- 
Pete