Hooray, Actors!

A coworker just dropped an ancient artifact off for me to read:

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  • Downloadable (legally) from here:
    http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6952

    Your actual paper copy wins hands down though! :-)

    I've been tidying up a download of Hewitt's 1973 paper (which appears to be OCRd and a bit dodgy in places) - very interesting reading. Turns out the Actor model comes from artificial intelligence and was actually an attempt to unify lots of different models of computation.

    Oh, and lisp based. Should I be surprised ? :-)
  • I think everything is Lisp based. Everything >:|
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