From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:36:24 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Jon von Neumann! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20151227203624.GI37664@wopr.sciops.net> 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