Talk:Gene Amdahl

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Recent activities as of 2004, 2005[edit]

I was too lazy to make any actual phone calls, but a web crawl shows Amdahl's involvement with Massively Parallel and nothing else. Xbridge Systems lists their current management team, but mentions nothing about Amdahl recently; he may still a board member, as a list of their board is not available from their website (and they are not public). On the positive side, an ad for a Jan 05 discussion panel with him indicates he is alive and well. --Willhsmit 02:31, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your contribution! As you know, it's absolutely a core asset of WKP that the article is as up-to-date as possible. I took the liberty of wikifying the information a little. --Wernher 20:25, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Having recently seen him at a birthday party (Gordon Bell's), he said he was mostly playing golf not far from from his home in Atherton. 143.232.210.150 (talk) 22:42, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FUD?[edit]

Why does this article feature FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) in the "See also" subheading? Is this vandalism?

Might not be vandalism. FUD was an accusation against IBM for nasty business practices in the 1960s and 1970s. 143.232.210.150 (talk)

In fact Amdahl invented the term to describe IBM's tactics in competing with his new company. sneakums (talk) 01:32, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Amdahl criminal proceedings[edit]

Where is the Gene Amdahl memorial stop light in Santa Clara? Was he driving a Rolls when he struck a pedistrian? 143.232.210.150 (talk) 22:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Amdahl may have driven into a motorcyclist stopped at a red light. I believe this was in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I was told at the time that a Rolls Royce drove through the stationary motorcyclist at high speed. It was at night. The individual who passed away worked for General Electric in Sunnyvale. This was a very sad event. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.167.182.223 (talk) 03:56, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

[1] mentions Gene Amdahl, driving a Rolls Royce, hitting a motorcyclist with fatal effect . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.193.221 (talk) 23:59, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Apparent vandalism by, apparently, the son of John Connolly[edit]

The section, The IBM & Amdahl years, has had various phrases injected into it which look like an attempt by a person claiming to be the son of John Connolly to insert multiple references about his father's and his own claimed connections with the subject of the article, i.e. Gene Amdahl.

As well as the inserted material having little or no direct / importance in the context of the article, the resulting sequence of words bears only casual relationship to the English language. The paragraph now reads as something which, in colloquial British slang, might be be called "a load of bollocks".

Some cleanup / reversion is needed, it seems. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.102.82 (talk) 08:48, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Death[edit]

I've not seen a published source yet, but I understand Dr. Amdahl died last night, November 10. Please keep an eye out for news reports. TJRC (talk) 01:07, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

PhD Thesis[edit]

The PhD thesis is listed as "1953".

The linked document, however, says http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bezenek/Stuff/amdahl_thesis.pdf

Page 1, submitted "Oct 11, 1951" Page 2, approved "Oct 18, 1951" Page 3, cover "1951" Page 4, library rubber stamp "DEC 13 1951" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.180.95.191 (talk) 16:09, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Carl? Magnuson?[edit]

My industry eats its own and excretes them with little fanfare. I despair that such a titan will never receive the historical attention he deserves, either for his great successes or his spectacular failures. WP, one of the places where one finds bibs and bobs about such people and events nevertheless quite properly eschews reminiscences in favor of published secondary sources; that few of these will ever emerge is neither here nor there. Sadly, those who were witnesses are now becoming inoperative.

For a time, I occupied an office space between Dr A's and that of his chain-smoking son Carlton, who plunked himself down at the Elxsi building at 2334 Lundy Place in San Jose after Dr A went up-stumps with his CFO and his personal admin (all that was left of Trilogy except $50M) from the lavish Trilogy digs at 10500 Ridgeview Ct. in Cupertino (near Tandem Computer Sytems; both now demolished to make way for a parking structure at Apple's new "Big O"). At one point, I helped move the WISC machine from the echoey, walnut-paneled Ridgeview Ct. building to Lundy Place, where it occupied a similarly disused area at the West end of the second floor. I subsequently closed the Lundy building in October of 1989, having been briefly rehired (after everyone including myself had been laid off by a Connecticut corporate raider the previous June) to dump disk images to 9-track for shipment to TATA Elxsi. I believe that the WISC was still there, in the otherwise abandoned building. I wonder what happened to it.

What I'm surprised about here is that there's no mention of Carlton or of Magnuson Computer Systems. I'll try to find an acceptable "offspring in the same field" template and add a brief, referenced section. Rt3368 (talk) 09:00, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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