Phil, (01)
Thanks for your offer. I know Dan from the 70s when I worked across the
street from Parc at Xerox SDD, and we have various mutual friends, too.
Frankly, I think the problem may be that life is very difficult at Parc
these days, and activities like getting permission to give away old
software may seem counter productive. That said, your idea of contacting
Danny Bobrow is a good one. I was in touch with him last year concerning
my Lisp quest, and he was quite appreciative of that. So maybe I could
ping him on this other thread. (02)
Paul (03)
Philip Gust wrote:
> Paul,
>
> I used to know Dan back when I was at HP Labs in connection with his
> Etherphone work. Not sure he'd remember me, but I'm willing to give
> it a go if you run out of other avenues. You might also consider
> contacting Danny Bobrow.
>
> At 04:50 PM 3/27/2006, Paul McJones wrote:
>> The meeting with Roy is in regard to Microsoft software.
>>
>> Jonathan Cheyer wrote:
>>> Paul McJones wrote:
>>>> Re the "exclusive property" label on the Alto schematics: I have
>>>> had a background project to find someone at Xerox to officially
>>>> grant some sort of access to Alto source code, etc. I did find the
>>>> correct person: Dan Swinehart. Unfortunately he doesn't seem very
>>>> motivated to actually work on this. (Again, maybe Al has some news.)
>>>
>>> Hopefully when you reach the point that Xerox is willing to grant
>>> access, make sure that their statement includes all associated
>>> documentation, manuals, diagrams, etc., in addition to the source
>>> code. A lot of the important historical information comes in these
>>> other forms.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've also been working with Roy Levin, currently head of the
>>>> Microsoft Silicon Valley Research Lab; this is going more smoothly.
>>>> (Bernard and I are having lunch with Roy tomorrow; maybe we can
>>>> give you a progress report.)
>>>
>>> Is this related to the Alto, or is this for other historical software?
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>
>
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