>>5 til that he was the author of MDL, mit's lisp dialect that was used to write original Zork (i'm sure it was used for all kinds of cool shit, but Zork is what it'll be remembered for). i guess guy was prolific, doing lisp things at MIT for years. i haven't verified that, but a couple of VLSI proceedings that i have from that era seem to indicate that SCHEME-79 might've been the first chip to use computer aided layout (8088 from around the same time was designed and laid out manually on draft paper)