Oral history interview with Jack B. Dennis, 1989 Oct. 31.

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Oral history interview with Jack B. Dennis, 1989 Oct. 31.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63297215

Dennis describes his educational background and work in time-sharing computer systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The interview focuses on time-sharing. Dennis discusses the TX0 computer at MIT, the work of John McCarthy on time-sharing, and the influence of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (later the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) on the development of time-sharing. Dennis also recalls the competition between various firms, including Digital Equipment Corporation, General Electric, Burroughs, and International Business Machines, to manufacture time-sharing systems. He describes the development of MULTICS at General Electric.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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