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ACTOR and PLASMA #2259

Open larsbrinkhoff opened 7 months ago

larsbrinkhoff commented 7 months ago

Notes about Carl Hewitt's ACTOR and PLASMA (PLAnner-like System Modeled on Actors).

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larsbrinkhoff commented 7 months ago

STEIG; TH 3 dated 1974-06-07 is Richard Steiger's thesis "Actor Machine Architecture".

larsbrinkhoff commented 7 months ago

The bulk of the code seems to be in the ACTOR directory.

There are two TS PLASMA executables, one from December 1975, and another from December 1976. The range of timestamps of files containing "plasma" is 1975-06-04 to 1978-01-04.

There are also two TS ACTOR from 1973-12-07 and 1974-01-08.

larsbrinkhoff commented 7 months ago

"Apiary" is maybe yet another evolution of the Actor-Plasma family. It has something to do with a hardware VLSI design: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41149