MCArchitect (was: Whats reasonable...

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Thu Jun 28 08:47:01 2001

I put some effort into the Peddle/MCA issue and found nothing yet.
Personally I'd be mildly surprised if an individualist like CP would've
been found at IBM at the time. I checked BYTEs 6/87,7/87 and found
no mention of any architects. In general, IBM did not celebrate the
individual above the team. Few counterexamples: John Cocke,
Benoit Mandlebrot, ? I suppose a specialist could've found out more
at a specialist event line a "Buscon" or the like.

One fond memory of PS/2. A Demo by the executive Reiswig on
none other than 'Computer Chronicles'. (note: Not by his assistant)

Has anyone considered that the overhead of caring for 50+ computers
may lead to an overtaxed memory?

John A.
P.S. IBM DX for Linux is on Tucows! (A Baby of mine)


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Senility set in for me well before my current age of 44, so
I could be wrong.... what i can be sure of is that the name
of the MCA designer was a very familiar name to me as a micro
enthusiast.
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