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  • How did Bell Labs start to work on Project MAC?

    From Acceptable Name@metta.crawler@gmail.com to alt.os.multics on Mon Jan 23 14:36:32 2023
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    Did Bell Labs approach MIT or was it the other way around? Did participating in Project MAC come from researchers requesting management at Bell Labs/MIT or did management make the decision due to dealing with other managers in each of the two organizations? Did it grow out of an informal arrangement into a format one?
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  • From cross@cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) to alt.os.multics on Tue Jan 24 22:30:39 2023
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    In article <7e680266-e06e-4dd4-adef-4dbdec27ddb7n@googlegroups.com>,
    Acceptable Name <metta.crawler@gmail.com> wrote:
    Did Bell Labs approach MIT or was it the other way around?
    Did participating in Project MAC come from researchers
    requesting management at Bell Labs/MIT or did management
    make the decision due to dealing with other managers in
    each of the two organizations? Did it grow out of an
    informal arrangement into a format one?

    Interesting question. Corby's oral history from the
    computer history museum sheds some light on this; it
    seems that Ed David at Bell Labs was good friends with
    Bob Fano at MIT and they decided to work together. See
    page 16 of: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102658041-05-01-acc.pdf

    - Dan C.

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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com to alt.os.multics on Tue Jan 24 22:01:55 2023
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    Acceptable Name wrote:
    Did Bell Labs approach MIT or was it the other way around? Did participating in Project MAC come from researchers requesting management at Bell Labs/MIT or did management make the decision due to dealing with other managers in each of the two organizations? Did it grow out of an informal arrangement into a format one?
    Noel Chiappa wrote to the COFF mailing list: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2023-January/001361.html https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2023-January/001362.html
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  • From Acceptable Name@metta.crawler@gmail.com to alt.os.multics on Wed Jan 25 05:31:54 2023
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    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 1:01:56 AM UTC-5, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
    Acceptable Name wrote:
    Did Bell Labs approach MIT or was it the other way around? Did participating in Project MAC come from researchers requesting management at Bell Labs/MIT or did management make the decision due to dealing with other managers in each of the two organizations? Did it grow out of an informal arrangement into a format one?
    Noel Chiappa wrote to the COFF mailing list: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2023-January/001361.html https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2023-January/001362.html
    Thanks, Lars. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26233/how-did-bell-labs-start-to-work-on-project-mac
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