Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geaclib!daveb
From: daveb@geaclib.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Lisp "future" instruction in 88k hardware.
Message-ID: <3431@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 00:42:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: geaclib.3431
References: <3543@hubcap.UUCP>
Organization: GEAC Computers, Toronto, CANADA
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From article <3543@hubcap.UUCP>, by mark@hubcap.UUCP (Mark Smotherman):
> An early machine, the Gamma-60, implemented fork and join.  A brief
> sketch of the machine follows:
...
> Compagnie des Machines Bull of France announced the Gamma 60 in
> 1958.  Twenty systems were built.  The logical designers were
> Pierre Chanus, Jean Bosset, and J.P. Cottet (the ones credited in
> the Datamation article).

  Oooohhh! Is my face red.

-dave (formerly of Honeywell, now Honeywell-Bull) c-b
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