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3 unusual facts about Jørn Jensen


Jørn Jensen

He developed the main parts of the base programs to DASK, the first Danish computer – among others, he designed a collection of monitor programs to supervise the program running schedule on DASK.

In tight collaboration with Peter Naur and others, he developed reliable, well documented compilers to the ALGOL 60 programming language.

Per Brinch Hansen

In the 1960s, Brinch Hansen worked at the Danish computer company Regnecentralen, first in the compiler group headed by Peter Naur and Jørn Jensen, and, later, as the chief architect of the RC 4000 minicomputer and its renowned operating system kernel (RC 4000 Multiprogramming System).



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