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| 630.1 | A professional writer? | SARAH::BUEHLER | Ta daaa! | Tue Oct 11 1988 10:14 | 5 |
| Probably an author who helped them out (heavily) with the composition
of the book. You often see that when the story comes from a
non-author.
John
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| 630.2 | | HYEND::JBOWKER | Hold still, this won't hurt a bit | Tue Oct 11 1988 10:46 | 10 |
| > Probably an author who helped them out (heavily) with the composition
> of the book. You often see that when the story comes from a
> non-author.
No. I believe Craig Mudge was an engineer who was involved in the
11/780. It was a long time ago so my memory of what he actually
did is a sort of fuzzy. But I know he wasn't a professional writer.
Joe
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| 630.3 | Bio | ULTRA::PRIBORSKY | All things considered, I'd rather be rafting. | Tue Oct 11 1988 10:47 | 21 |
| The bio in the rear leaf of the dust jacket says:
J. Craig Mudge is a Consulting Engineer with Digital
Equipment Corporation. On assignment to California
Institute of Technology, he is a Visiting Associate
Professor in the Computer Science Department. He
was educated at Australian National University and
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where
he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science. Dr. Mudge's
experience includes CPU development (PDP-11 and VAX-11
systems) and programming with International Computers
Limited and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization, Canberra. He has taught at
Cernegie-Mellon University and California Institute
of Technology. His research interests are computer
systems architecture, the design of VLSI systems,
and the modelling of processors and workloads. He
is a member fo Sigma Xi, the Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers, and the Association for
Computing Machinery.
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| 630.4 | Aha, mine has no dust cover. Thanks. | OASS::M_HYDE | From the laboratory of Dr. Jekyll | Tue Oct 11 1988 12:55 | 1 |
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| 630.5 | | BUNYIP::QUODLING | Anything! Just play it loud! | Tue Oct 11 1988 21:02 | 5 |
| Dr. Mudge now runs a company in South Australia called Austec
MicroSystems, that do VLSI design work...
q
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| 630.6 | the answer | BINKLY::WINSTON | Jeff Winston (Hudson, MA) | Tue Oct 11 1988 22:11 | 13 |
| I believe Craig did work on the 11/780, but when I came to DEC, he was
(reasonably successfully) leading the Advanced Development effort in
CAD tools and design that was the seed effort for DEC Hudson's
Semiconductor facility. His group designed the datapath for a
floating point accelerator (never fabricated) using tools and design
methods which subsequently matured into the tools and methods used on
the 8200 (Scorpio) project, and later, the MicroVAX II.
My memory was that he left to set up a VLSI design center for the
Australian Government, or some such, a 'golden opportunity' for
someone wanted to go back to their native country. Although he was in
transition at the time, my impression was that his departure was
considered a loss.
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| 630.7 | Craig Who? | DECEAT::BHANDARKAR | | Tue Oct 11 1988 23:24 | 5 |
| Craig worked on the PDP-11/60 and several A/D projects, some of which led to
such notable products as the VAX-11/730. Most of all Craig was a legend in his
own mind!
Dileep
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| 630.8 | | BINKLY::WINSTON | Jeff Winston (Hudson, MA) | Wed Oct 12 1988 22:42 | 5 |
| I thought Stan Lackey and another guy (don't remember his name - but
he worked on the uCode of the 780/750) built the 730 (Nebula?) - I
didn't think Craig was involved
/j
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| 630.9 | No, you guys got it all wrong... | CHUCKM::MURRAY | Chuck Murray | Thu Oct 13 1988 09:27 | 2 |
| J. Craig Mudge: Senator from Indiana. Changed his name after
extensive market research. Currently aspiring to higher office.
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| 630.10 | 730 | DECEAT::BHANDARKAR | | Fri Oct 14 1988 11:29 | 14 |
| RE:< Note 630.8 by BINKLY::WINSTON "Jeff Winston (Hudson, MA)" >
>I thought Stan Lackey and another guy (don't remember his name - but
>he worked on the uCode of the 780/750) built the 730 (Nebula?) - I
>didn't think Craig was involved
>
>/j
Yes, Stan Lackey and Ken Okin worked on the 730. Craig and Tom Northrup had
an A/D project that had proposed a single board CPU with a 16 bit data path.
As it became a real project, the design changed significantly.
/d
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| 630.11 | Craig is Down Under | SNOC01::GOW | Has my ship come in yet? | Tue Oct 18 1988 00:24 | 28 |
| Craig Mudge is alive and well and a director of Austek Microsystems
located in the beautiful City of Adelaide, South Australia. If
you are into Formula One racing, tune in on November 13 when Adelaide
hosts the Australian Grand Prix.
Austek was founded by Craig early this decade, and today he carries
the formidible title of Founder and Chief Scientist. Austek designs
custom VLSI for the military plus a number of other specialist chips
for commercial products.
One such product is the floating point chip set for the Encore
Super-whizzo-unix-ultra-hotbox. I understand that Gordon Bell had
more than a little to do with that machinary as well.
Austek is now the proud user of an Encore, at the expense of the
11/785 they used to know and love. They also recently awarded all
of their F/S for DEC gear to a third party. Goodnight, Austek.
By the way, if you ever find yourself holidaying on a submarine,
and you discover that your vessel is being tracked by Sonobouys,
take comfort in the fact that chips that they use are Austek chips.
If you desire to get in touch with Craig, I have his contact number,
and would be happy to mail it to you.
Bruce Gow
CSS Western District
Adelaide, South Australia
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