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Here’s a link to Mashey’s post on mstdn: https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/112477330642538953 https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/112477330642538953 It’s short en

by smarks 2y ago

Here’s a link to Mashey’s post on mstdn: https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/112477330642538953 https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/112477330642538953 It’s short enough that I’ll quote it here. “I am very sad to report death May 17 at age 89 of Gordon Bell, famous computer pioneer, a founder of Computer Museum in Boston, and a force behind the @ComputerHistory her in Silicon Valley, and good friend since the 1980s. He succumbed to aspiration pneumonia in Coronado, CA. I'm told there will be a "Celebration of Life" service in August in Silicon Valley. (Another fallen giant, we attended a similar service in April for another, Nobelist Arno Penzias.)” HN should post the black bar.

smarks 2y ago
In the thread below his preview post, Mashey added the following (edited for typos): "When I lead tours of Computer History Museum, I usually say there were 3 giants in the early decades of computer architecture: Gene Amdhal - mainframes Gordon Bell - minicomputers Seymour Cray - supercomputers and I was lucky to know the first two well, never met Cray." https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/112477430691339073 https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/112477430691339073
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  > never met Cray We lost Cray* to an untimely automobile accident. It'd be possible to have many fewer of those in the future, but that policy seems to be a much harder sell than I'd think it would be. * when the Mac team bragged they'd used a Cray to design their latest version (heat flow simulation IIRC), Cray humblebragged back that he'd used a Mac to design his latest version.