History of Macsyma - first draft/ some suggestions.

--- Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:


> > The new effort was dubbed Macsyma - Project MAC's SYmbolic
> MAnipulator.
> > (Cite new paper)  The original core design was done by W.A. Martin,
> C.
> > Engelman, and J. Moses in July 1968, and coding began in July 1969
> with
> > significant parts of the system being programmed and designed by 
> 
> %this list should either be much longer or much shorter.
 
OK, I'll just stick to dates then - I'll never be able to figure out
all the names that should be there, and I don't want to run the risk of
leaving anyone out who should be there.
 
> YOU LEFT OUT THE LISP MACHINE IMPLEMENTATION!!!

Whoopsie.  Yeah, that wouldn't be good.
 

Thanks very much for taking the time to read over this, Richard.  You
filled it out and corrected it as I would never have been able to do.  

CY

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