MCArchitect (was: Whats reasonable...

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Jun 29 17:48:20 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.

Ok,

The Chief Architect of IBM's Micro-Channel Architecture was

        <drum-roll, please....>

Chet Heath.

My bad.

-dq
Received on Fri Jun 29 2001 - 17:48:20 BST