igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) (12/19/89)
baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) writes: > > The terminology of "bucky-bits" precedes Symbolics by quite a bit. It > originated at Stanford AI Labs in the late 60's, I believe. I can't > recall how they got named exactly. Perhaps someone who remembers could > set it straight, and possibly cross-post to alt.computer.folklore The ``Hacker's Dictionary'', as I recall, traces the use of extensive shift bits being called ``Bucky Bits'' to Nicklaus Wirth, who suggested them whilst in the US on a sabatical. He was nicknamed ``Bucky'' at the time. ian -- Ian G Batten, BT Fulcrum - igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk - ...!uunet!ukc!fulcrum!igb