16 Nov
2019
16 Nov
'19
4:26 a.m.
On 11/15/2019 4:54 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Computer architect Gene Amdahl was born in on this day
in 1922; he had
a hand in the IBM 704 and the System/360, founded Amdahl Corporation
(maker of /360 clones), and devised Amdahl's Law in relation to
parallel processing.
How did Amdahl get away with making 360 clones? I would have thought
that IBM would have crushed his bones into dust.
art k.