Corbato Explains Why GE Hardware Was Chosen Over IBM for Multics 🚀
Fernando Corbató, Turing Award laureate, shares insights on selecting GE technology instead of IBM for the groundbreaking Multics project. Discover the reasons behind this pivotal decision!
Turing Awardee Clips
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Fernando José Corbató, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, describes the decision to use GE rather than IBM hardware for the development of what became Multics. This clip taken from an interview conducted with Corbató by Steve Webber for the ACM on April 6, 2018. Video of the full interview is available as part of Corbató’s ACM profile at https://amturing.acm.org/interviews/corbato_1009471.cfm.
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Jun 22, 2020