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From: zeke@cryptica.ucsd.edu (Rob Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc
Subject: Re: Name (mis-)recogition
Summary: Anybody actually write a book about ETA?
Keywords: ETA Systems, Book
Message-ID: <1124@cryptica.ucsd.edu>
Date: 23 Jun 91 18:30:57 GMT
References: <676362452.36@egsgate.FidoNet.Org> <550@equinox.unr.edu> <1991Jun13.025922.10626@news.larc.nasa.gov> <1991Jun14.121219.3395@borage.cc.uwa.oz.au> <1991Jun14.234246.14809@nas.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Jun14.234246.14809@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@vax-amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>
>Now, I have an officemate who tells me to read "A Few Good Men from Univac"
>(when ERA was bought up by Univac) and "Memories Which Shaped an Industry"
>(about the IBM 360).  MIT Press.  So I am starting to re-read (oh a photo
>of Cray in front of a 6600).  So consider these two besides reading
>Thorndyke's book.
>

Is the "Thorndyke" book you reference above by Lloyd Thorndyke, the former
President and CEO of ETA Systems?  Ever since ETA was closed, there have
been rumors that Lloyd and/or Neil Lincoln and/or others might write some
"definitive" post-debacle analysis of the CDC/ETA downfall.  I'd be
interested if somebody had actually done it.
 
 
Rob



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Rob Scott					zeke%mpl@ucsd.edu
System Administrator, Marine Physical Lab	(619) 534-8588
Scripps Institution of Oceanography