Actuality Group

The world of computers and information was turning topsy turvy, moving from the time proven model of a single  mainframe serving multiple client terminals, to the newer experimental  model of numerous stand-alone computers acting as both server and client. During this time, Mike was actively involved in a project with far reaching consequences. The paradigm, encouraged by British Telecom aka Tymnet, of a hybrid model of computing where numerous clients or stations would share resources via a centralized hub, was novel for its time, but was of course the forerunner of modern web based enterprise computing. Mike had developed and maintained the compiler and tools for the original Tymnet Engine, and was soon to be enlisted as co-developer of the Sun Microsystems PicoJAVA compiler, for a chip designed specifically to facilitate web based distributed computing.