< project > (SAGE) The computer system of the old US Norad air defence system. SAGE was ground-breaking in many ways, such as being one of the first very large software projects and the first real-time system.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory developed SAGE and MITRE Corporation was responsible for system engineering and implementation oversight.
http://www.togger.com/ , http://www.jps.net/ethelen/sage.html , http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ewow-ray/sage28.html .
[Confirm? Dates? Connection with MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics?]
(1999-12-16)