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These reminiscences relate to the period that I spent during 1964-66 first in IBM Research working in Project Y and then in the Systems Development Division in the resulting ACS Project - then-secret projects whose aim was to build a super-computer that would be one hundred times faster than Stretch. My account is based mainly on memory, but also makes use of the small set of files that I had retained afterwards, mainly relating to patent applications. A scanned copy of one of these files, the paper “Dynamic Instruction Scheduling”, that I co-authored with Lynn Conway, Don Rozenberg and Don Senzig in February 1966, is included as Appendix 1. Text of a section on “Interrupts” which was added to the 1969 IBM San José Technical Report version of this paper is given as Appendix 2.
Author(s): Randell B
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2005
Pages: 33
Print publication date: 01/02/2005
Source Publication Date: February 2005
Report Number: 891
Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/891.pdf
