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ann-hardy

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• Ann Hardy co-authored KeyKOS's architecture paper and founded Key Logic to build it — Wikipedia's KeyKOS page still omits her, while Norman Hardy's 1988 'confused deputy' credit turns out to be uncontested, not a misattribution
  capture promoted 2026-10-30 · ann-hardy, norman-hardy, keykos, gnosis, key-logic
• Ann Hardy's own account credits GNOSIS's original c. 1970 design team to Dale Jordan and Norman Hardy, not herself
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-30 · ann-hardy, norman-hardy, dale-jordan, keykos, gnosis
• Ann Hardy founded Key Logic and is a named co-author of KeyKOS's own architecture paper
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-30 · ann-hardy, keykos, gnosis, key-logic, tymshare
• Wikipedia's KeyKOS article omits Ann Hardy from its developer credit, as does Wikipedia's own Ann Hardy biography
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-10-30 · ann-hardy, keykos, gnosis, wikipedia, credit-misattribution
• Norman Hardy's own written account of Tymnet's origins independently confirms Ann Hardy did the Tymshare operating-system work
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-23 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, tymshare, tymnet, ann-hardy
• Verify Ann Hardy's authorship of the Tymshare SDS-940 OS and Norman Hardy's disclaimer against the primary oral-history transcript
  capture promoted 2026-07-22 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, tymshare, oral-history, gender-erasure