From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:24:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111013182442.GA13187@skaro.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318526805.1860.14.camel@Wes-Toshiba-Laptop>
> > I hope the Turing award is more widely know in other
> > parts of the world than it is here (a bit sad as I can walk to
> > Bletchley Park from here).
>
> Even Bletchley Park doesn't recognize its own. The real heavy lifting in
> Bletchley's WWII cryptanalysis was not the Enigma stuff but the cracking
> of the much more complex Lorenz cipher by Tommy Flowers & crew. I was
> disappointed in my visit last year to see their building and exhibit as
> an "oh yeah, you can see that too if you want" outside the main tour.
> Just a working recreation of Colossus, as if that might interest
> anyone :( And that group has to pass the hat to visitors because they
> don't share in Bletchley's funding!
>
> Wes Kussmaul
True. Even the Enigma stuff seems under funded.
And as I was reading this the BBC in the background was busy
discussing something about Kylie Minogue's honorary doctorate in
health science... :-/
I think I must be autistic because I just dont understand the
priorities of most humans...
Perhaps that is why it is such a loss when someone I actually
could relate to is gone.
DMR did give a talk at my university in Sydney when I was there
many years ago. I remember he wore a cap with a propellor on it.
He certainly will be missed.
DigbyT
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 5:29 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-10-13 5:35 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-10-13 6:57 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-13 13:19 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2011-10-13 13:44 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 13:30 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-13 15:19 ` pera
2011-10-13 16:56 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 17:26 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-13 17:40 ` simon softnet
2011-10-13 18:24 ` Digby Tarvin [this message]
2011-10-13 18:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-13 17:19 ` tlaronde
2011-10-13 17:22 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-10-13 19:30 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-13 20:02 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-13 21:19 ` Nick LaForge
2011-10-13 22:57 ` Thomas
2011-10-13 23:20 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-10-24 8:46 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-11-10 9:43 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-11-10 12:56 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-11-10 12:57 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-11-11 0:10 ` clinton
2011-10-13 18:14 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2020-09-28 18:32 Sad news Dan Cross
2020-09-28 18:54 ` [9fans] " Gorka Guardiola
2020-09-28 19:24 ` Gabriel Díaz López De La Llave
2020-09-28 19:29 ` Federico Benavento
2020-09-28 19:38 ` Don Bailey
2020-09-28 21:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2020-09-29 3:44 ` Lucio De Re
2020-09-29 8:01 ` enrique.soriano
2020-09-29 8:07 ` Francisco Ballesteros
2020-09-29 11:57 ` elbingmiss
2020-09-30 8:20 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2020-09-30 8:43 ` Christopher Nielsen
2020-09-29 8:14 Steve Simon
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