[cap-talk] "Composite", was "Same" key

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap at eros-os.com
Wed Feb 14 12:23:34 CST 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 18:15 +0000, David Hopwood wrote:

> Alan Kay:
> # At Utah sometime after Nov 66 when, influenced by Sketchpad, Simula,
> # the design for the ARPAnet, the Burroughs B5000, and my background in
> # Biology and Mathematics...

The B5000 was one of those pivotal machines that influenced a LOT of
other work. Ironically, many of the innovations attributed to the B5000
machine were present in earlier machines elsewhere.
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Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
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The EROS Group, LLC
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