Spelunking CACM, Vol. 26 (1983): Japan's Fifth Generation

1983 marked the first quarter century of CACM itself. The outgoing Editor in Chief, Robert L. Ashenhurst, marked the occasion with a January special issue reprinting some twenty-one of the best articles from the archives. The paper copy of this issue must be a collector's item. Every article in that is worth reading, even today, and I'm pleased to see that my own spelunking found many but not all…