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>>> We were arguing about what the name of the company should be when Richard walked in, saluted, and said, "Richard Feynman reporting for duty. OK, boss, what's my assignment?" The assembled group of not-quite-graduated MIT students was astounded.
After a hurried private discussion ("I don't know, you hired him..."), we ...
- omneity 4y agoFascinating! Thank you for the reference. The Connecting Machine looks like a nerd dream. Massively parallel with a high level language and API. I believe we can see Symbolics OS in the OP PDF. I wonder what went wrong with the vision for it not to come to fruition. Hopefully not just a “boring” technological limitation.