What were the first CS papers to use asymptotic analysis?http://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/67566/what-are-the-first-computer-science-papers-that-used-asymptotic-time-complexity …
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His claim is that he was ridiculed at conferences when he started using asymptotic analysis, but I can't find evidence either way
He says that before big O became standard people would say things like "On a Burroughs B2500, ...", and not in systems papers.