core-memory

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Does a peer-reviewed history (Pugh 1984) or An Wang's own oral history corroborate the MIT Core Report's characterization of Forrester as self-mythologizing about core memory?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
An Wang's 1970 oral history frames Jay Forrester's core-memory contribution as a separate, later technical addition, not usurped credit

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
A secondary IEEE Computer Society account states Pugh's 1984 history gives full credit to An Wang, locating the erasure of his role elsewhere

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth