[ale] RIP: Fred Brooks: IBM 360 head of architecture

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The Space Shuttle GPCs used modified IBM/360 computers, model AP-101s.

AP-101: https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=7356
https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-3.html


On 11/21/22 14:25, Bob Toxen via Ale wrote:
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> In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks Jr. CircleID (11/19/22) Steven
> Bellovin
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> Computer scientist Frederick P. Brooks Jr., who passed away on Nov.
> 17, earned the ACM A.M. Turing Award [called the Nobel Prize of
> Computer Science] in 1999 for his landmark contributions to computer
> architecture, operating systems, and software engineering. Columbia
> University's Steven Bellovin recalled Brooks' time at IBM, where he
> led the design of the S/360 mainframes, which comprised five models
> with distinct performance characteristics, sharing a common
> architecture-defined instruction set.
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> At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brooks focused
> on computer graphics and protein modeling, and pioneered virtual
> reality by using a remote manipulator arm to "grab" and move atoms
> with accompanying force feedback.
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> Brooks' book "the mythical man-month: Essays on Software
> Engineering", required for Jim Joyce's JCL class at Berkeley, was
> very valuable for me with insight on complexity of programming
> teams.
> 
> I remember especially his lesson that adding people will not always
> speed up the process due to training needs, etc.  His brilliant
> analogy was that "Nine women cannot make a baby in one month" has not
> been forgotten.
> 
> Also, the first computer I programmed on (in APL) was the mighty IBM
> 360 model 90 that also was, I believe, the first with moving head
> disk drives.
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> RIP
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