Sad news of Bob Tomasulo's passing

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dennis R. Allison [allison () Stanford EDU]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 1:52 PM
To: allison () Stanford EDU; David Farber
Subject: Sad news of Bob Tomasulo's passing

Mike Flynn, writing from London, reports that Bob Tomasulo died a day ago.
Bob has been living in Michigan and had a long struggle with cancer.

Bob Tomasulo was the 1997 Eckert-Mauchly Award recipient for the ingenious
algorithm which enabled out-of-order execution processors to be implemented.
Tomasulo's algorithm was first used in the floating point processor of the
IBM 360/91.


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