project (TOSS) The Cambridge Project
Project MAC was an ARPA-funded political science computing project. They worked on topics like survey analysis and simulation, led by Ithiel de Sola Pool, J.C.R. Licklider and Douwe B. Yntema. Yntema had done a system on the
MIT Lincoln Labs TX-2 called the
Lincoln Reckoner, and in the summer of 1969 led a Cambridge Project team in the construction of an experiment called TOSS. TOSS was like
Logo, with
matrix operators. A major feature was multiple levels of
undo, back to the level of the
login session. This feature was cheap on the Lincoln Reckoner, but absurdly expensive on
Multics.
(1997-01-29)