Oral history interview with Jack Bonnell Dennis
1989-10-31
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Oral history interview with Jack Bonnell Dennis
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1989-10-31
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Charles Babbage Institute
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Dennis describes his educational background and work in time-sharing computer systems at the 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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Jack B. Dennis, OH 177. Oral history interview by Judy E. O'Neill, 31 October 1989, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107244
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Dennis, Jack B. (Jack Bonnell); O'Neill, Judy E.. (1989). Oral history interview with Jack Bonnell Dennis. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107244.
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