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Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022

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In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - a Personal Recollection
https://circleid.com/posts/20221119-in-memoriam-frederick-p-brooks-jr-a-personal-recollection

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91. He was a
lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM's dominance for
decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a
quirky classic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technology/frederick-p-brooks-jr-dead.html

RIP Fred 'Mythical Man-Month' Brooks: IBM guru of software project
management. Turing Award winner who helped spread the eight-bit byte
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/28/fred_mythical_man_month_brooks/
The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360
series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of
lowercase letters. That change propagated everywhere.

... 8bit ... then there is ebcdic fiasco (instead of ascii)

BCD was supposed to go to 8-bit ASCII ... but (comedy? of)
circumstances, it went to EBCDIC instead (gone 404, but lives on at
wayback machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/ASCII.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/BACSLASH.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/FATHEROF.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM

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Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2022-11-29 12:11 -0800
  Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2022-11-29 13:21 -0700
  Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 D.J. <chucktheouch@gmnol.com> - 2022-11-29 14:49 -0600
    Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-11-29 23:24 +0000
      Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2022-11-30 03:11 -0400
        Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2022-11-30 08:56 +0000
          Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2022-11-30 14:27 -0400
        Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 "Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-kbd-this> - 2022-11-30 09:26 -0800
  Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2022-11-29 18:31 -1000
    Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-11-30 17:57 +0000
      Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2022-11-30 15:57 -0700
        Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-11-30 23:10 +0000
          Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2022-11-30 18:19 -0700
            Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2022-11-30 18:24 -0700
          Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2022-11-30 16:39 -1000
            Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2022-12-01 16:03 -0800
              Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2022-12-01 14:44 -1000
        Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-12-01 05:19 +0000
        Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-12-01 15:19 +0000
          Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2022-12-01 21:55 +0000
            Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2022-12-01 15:59 -0800
        Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2022-12-01 18:07 -0800
      Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-11-30 23:10 +0000

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