Gordon Bell Dead
DEC's chief architect � designed the PDP-4 through PDP-11 and led the VAX; later Microsoft's research memory evangelist.
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Worked at Digital Equipment Corporation
Architected DEC's PDP-4 through PDP-11 and led the VAX — the machine line that defined minicomputing — then evangelized 'computer museums' at Microsoft.\n\nThe Computer History Museum exists because he pushed for it; 'Bell's law' describes new computing classes per decade.