History and Heritage of the DLT (Distributed Language Translation) project
Toon Witkam · 2006
When I joined BSO (Buro voor Systeem-Ontwikkeling, Utrecht) in 1978, that software company, founded two years before, was still widely unknown. Some fifty people, most of them in their early thirties, were working there and it was my third employer after I had graduated from Delft Technical University as an aeronautical engineer. That was 8 years before. My graduation project had been about designing aircraft structures by means of interactive computer graphics, pretty much a pioneering piece of ‘IT’ at that time. So I set off for a career in the software industry. Working in Germany and the Netherlands, I was on a variety of computer projects dealing with science and engineering applications, eager to make good use of my math-minded technical education.