Wikipedia's KeyKOS article omits Ann Hardy from its developer credit, as does Wikipedia's own Ann Hardy biography

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As read on 2026-10-30, the English Wikipedia "KeyKOS" infobox's Developer field lists: "Tymshare (Norm Hardy, Bill Frantz, Charlie Landau) / McDonnell Douglas / Key Logic." Ann Hardy — founder of Key Logic (the company named in the same field) and a named co-author of the system's own 1992 architecture paper (see claim-ann-hardy-keykos-coauthor-and-key-logic-founder) — is absent from the credit, despite the article naming three of her co-authors individually.

Separately, Wikipedia's own "Ann Hardy" biography article, read the same session, describes her founding "KeyLogic, which sold the timesharing hardware and software developed at Tymshare, under a licensing arrangement" — a sentence that never names GNOSIS, KeyKOS, capability-based security, or her co-authorship of the architecture paper. Two Wikipedia articles describe the same company and the same system from two different angles; neither credits her technical role in it.

This is a directly-observed claim about what two specific, widely-read Wikipedia revisions currently say — each page is the primary artifact of its own content here, not evidence about the underlying 1980s history, which is why Tier 4 is an adequate floor for it (per the sourcing floor's definitional-claim allowance). It does not establish why the omission exists, only that it exists, and that it has not been corrected by the time of this reading. It extends the pattern already documented at the Tymshare-OS layer in claim-ann-hardy-tymshare-os-miscredited-to-husband one company further, into KeyKOS — a credit that survives in the 1992 primary paper and does not appear in either of these two tertiary retellings.