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From: 3ksnn64@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Joe Cychosz)
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Subject: Re: Name (mis-)recogition
Keywords: ETA Systems, Book
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Date: 24 Jun 91 20:40:37 GMT
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>>(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
>interested if somebody had actually done it.
In an earlier part of this thread, the talked about the book "Design of a
Computer The Control Data 6600" which is by Thornton and not Thorndyke.
Thornton was head of the Advance Design Labs at CDC at the time.  He later
went on to form Network Systems.  To the best of my knowledge, Thorndyke
has not written a book.