sorry, i screwed up. i looked at "Strachey" and saw "Stamey" (of Prog LANg 9 fame). Thanks Bakul.
>> > i liked Strachey's use of OS/6 for his operating system: >> > he thought that at the rate he implemented things, >> > there was little chance of a name collision. >> >> somebody should have told him about Microware's OS/9 (back in '80s) > > OS/6 was done in 1970. Strachey died in 1975. He was one of > my CS heroes, having to do with denotational semantics, > continuations, and a whole bunch of other things including > possibly the first paper on multiprogramming in 1959.
