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Donald Pederson, chip scientist, dies at 79 (NYTimes)

Donald Pederson, chip scientist, dies at 79 (NYTimes)

Posted Jan 12, 2005 18:17 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (guest, #15888)
Parent article: Donald Pederson, chip scientist, dies at 79 (NYTimes)

RIP, Donald Pederson, and thanks for your contributions.

I got to maintain an early copy of SPICE on a CDC mainframe back circa 1979-80. Massive Fortran (FTN4) program that did all sorts of bizarre things like writing machine code into an array and then executing it (which I cursed thoroughly at the time). Its descendants, both direct and in spirit, are still doing well today.


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