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From: hwe@beta.UUCP (Skip Egdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Klu(d)ges -- The Inside Story
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Date: Sun, 3-May-87 22:39:21 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  3 22:39:21 1987
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Summary: Kludge: From three of my most prized possesions...

In article <759@instable.UUCP>, amos@instable.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
> Someone should track down the author of the original article about
> the Kludge Computer (Datamation in 1962, I think), and ask him!
> -- 
> 	Amos Shapir
> National Semiconductor (Israel)
> 6 Maskit st. P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel  Tel. (972)52-522261
> amos%nsta@nsc.com {hplabs,pyramid,sun,decwrl} 34.48'E 32.10'N

Datamation, V8 N2 Feb 1962
Page 30
"How to Design A Kludge" by Jackson W. Granholm

Datamation, V8 N5 May 1962
Page 63
"How to Market A Kludge shrewdly" by Oswald I. Orthmutt

Datamation, V8 N7 July 1962
Page 41
"The Master Plan for Kludge Software" by Dr. Morris L. Morris and
                                         Dr. Austin O. Arthur

Amos, Thank you for the nudge to get upstairs and dig out these three
gems again. They are important texts that should be a part of any
educated computer scientist's stock of knowledge.

The three papers are very up to date despite the publication dates;
A very depressing thought!

Other articles show the age of these very modern papers:
The 7094: IBM's 90 Successor
The CDC 3600: Modularity from 32-262K
and
How to Make a computer Appear Intelligent, by Joseph Weizenbaum
(Maybe I should crosspost to comp.AI...)
				Skip

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