| | Lynn Conway's Career Retrospective, Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | In June 1964, it was time for "Robert" to go to work by joining the prestigious IBM Research Laboratory at Yorktown Heights, N.Y. It was time of intense intellectual activity within the Lab, which was one of the most elite of computer research outfits at the time. |
 | | Reflecting back, it's now clear that even though the ACS project was thought of as very secret within IBM, a number of high-level outside computer experts became familiar with the machine's novel architecture, and those experts began to diffuse the key knowledge out from ACS in the mid-late 60's. |
 | | Lawrence Livermore Lab career retrospective interview of computer scientist Norm Hardy (23 May 1994), Norm reflects on his interactions with people at IBM-ACS in the 60's, and talks about the out-of-order multiple-issuance of instructions (DIS) in that machine. |
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