From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Jon von Neumann!
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:36:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151227203624.GI37664@wopr.sciops.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1512280609550.27165@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 06:23:50AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Jon von Neumann was born in 1903; without him, we probably wouldn't have
> had computers at all (but we could've had a Wintel version, I suppose,
> wherein everything is controlled by BB).
Sure we would have had computers. We just wouldn't have had privilege
escalations based on stack smashes. That guy ruined the ENIAC!
khm
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 19:23 Dave Horsfall
2015-12-27 20:36 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2015-12-28 7:48 ` Peter Jeremy
2015-12-29 0:05 ` Andru Luvisi
2015-12-29 1:07 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-27 20:01 Norman Wilson
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