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Re: How did Bell Labs start to work on Project MAC?

From cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups alt.os.multics
Subject Re: How did Bell Labs start to work on Project MAC?
Date 2023-01-24 22:30 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In article <7e680266-e06e-4dd4-adef-4dbdec27ddb7n@googlegroups.com>,
Acceptable Name  <metta.crawler@gmail.com> wrote:
>Did Bell Labs approach MIT or was it the other way around?
>Did participating in Project MAC come from researchers
>requesting management at Bell Labs/MIT or did management
>make the decision due to dealing with other managers in
>each of the two organizations? Did it grow out of an
>informal arrangement into a format one?

Interesting question.  Corby's oral history from the
computer history museum sheds some light on this; it
seems that Ed David at Bell Labs was good friends with
Bob Fano at MIT and they decided to work together.  See
page 16 of:
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102658041-05-01-acc.pdf

	- Dan C.

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How did Bell Labs start to work on Project MAC? Acceptable Name <metta.crawler@gmail.com> - 2023-01-23 14:36 -0800
  Re: How did Bell Labs start to work on Project MAC? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2023-01-24 22:30 +0000
  Re: How did Bell Labs start to work on Project MAC? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com> - 2023-01-24 22:01 -0800
    Re: How did Bell Labs start to work on Project MAC? Acceptable Name <metta.crawler@gmail.com> - 2023-01-25 05:31 -0800

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