From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1318526805.1860.14.camel@Wes-Toshiba-Laptop> References: <20111013165652.GD12236@skaro.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> <1318526805.1860.14.camel@Wes-Toshiba-Laptop> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:40:14 +0200 Message-ID: From: simon softnet To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37a1a33a-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 :( =A0And that group has to pass the hat to visitors because they > don't share in Bletchley's funding! > > Wes Kussmaul > > >