Graham Toal: I was a student at Edinburgh from 76-81 (77-81 in Computer Science after an abortive start as a chemist...). I've been very grateful for the excellent grounding we received in computer science at Edinburgh and thirty years later its pretty clear that students today are not being as well taught as we were. I've been around for the whole 'rise of Unix' thing and for about 20 years of that have been frustrated that Unix was playing catchup with the systems we used in Edinburgh in the 70's. It's really only now, in the new millenium, that the rest of the world has caught up with the totally unsung pioneering work that was done at Edinburgh. So I thought it would be a worthwhile project to bring the early work done here to the attention of the rest of the world while our pioneers are still alive to appreciate it. This project will not only record the history of computing at Edinburgh, and the recollections of the pioneers, but also will recover a lot of that early software and put it online for the younger generation to learn from.
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