On 07/02/2016 08:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 17:33:46 -0700, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > >> mike.lamart...@mcleansoft.com (Mike La Martina) writes: >>> After reading the story of Compare and Swap for, lo, all these many years, I >>> am sorry but I must ask. >>> >>> Charlie who? >> aka Charlie's initials are CAS ... part of the effort was to choose >> mnemonic (compare-and-swap) that were Charlie's initials >> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp >> >> IBM funds MIT project athena for $25M and then DEC funds another $25M, >> both IBM and DEC get an associate director of Project Athena. Charlie >> leaves the science center >> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech >> and becomes the IBM associate director of Project athena (pg 10): >> http://simson.net/ref/athena/Q_and_A_Draft_October31_1986.pdf >> <SNIP!> >> > Errrr... https://xkcd.com/1640/ > > -- gil > > The plethora of links at the referenced URLs never even gave a direct answer to the question "Charlie Who".
One of the paragraphs at the many sub-links at the given URLs refers to him as "Charlie S.", another as "Charlie Salisbury", so apparently it was a Charlie A. Salisbury who worked for IBM somewhere in the realm of hardware design. I found some non-garlic.com links suggesting there is/was at some point a Charlie Salisbury at IBM as an Engineering Manager or a Service Delivery Manager, but no indication whether this was a reference to the same CAS Charlie. IBM could easily have had multiple employees over the years with the same first-last name. -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
