[ih] John McCarthy

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Guy Almes <galmes at tamu.edu>

    > We note with sadness the death of John McCarthy.
    > ...
    > Any comments?

To me, one of his biggest influences was his early foundational work on
time-sharing systems; more here:

  http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html

All modern computers are basically time-sharing systems, just mostly
single-user ones.


The AP obit is here:

  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111025/D9QJJS901.html 

Kinda short, though...

	Noel