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From: simon softnet <ph.softnet@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:40:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFUsep2GjDqPUm_dnixZKosxHrKZH3cbNtSYAKc2q1WMv3MDzg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318526805.1860.14.camel@Wes-Toshiba-Laptop>

I loved Dennis Ritchie, along with all the folks from "The labs", even
though I wasn't even born
at the time of their greatest breakthroughs.
Greatest inspiration I ever had comes from the mentality of those
people in Bell Labs.
Rest in Peace, and all my respect.

Simon.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Wes Kussmaul <wes@authentrus.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:56 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
>> 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
>
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-13 17:40 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 [this message]
2011-10-13 18:24       ` Digby Tarvin
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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