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ACTOR and PLASMA #2259

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larsbrinkhoff opened this issue Nov 27, 2023 · 3 comments
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ACTOR and PLASMA #2259

larsbrinkhoff opened this issue Nov 27, 2023 · 3 comments
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larsbrinkhoff commented Nov 27, 2023 •
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Notes about Carl Hewitt's ACTOR and PLASMA (PLAnner-like System Modeled on Actors).

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

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larsbrinkhoff commented Nov 27, 2023 •
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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.

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"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

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