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From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Jon von Neumann!
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:48:30 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151228074830.GA64282@server.rulingia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1512280609550.27165@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On 2015-Dec-28 06:23:50 +1100, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>Jon von Neumann was born in 1903; without him, we probably wouldn't have 
>had computers at all

There were computers before von Neumann - mostly female.

Without the von Neumann architechure, an entire class of exploits
wouldn't exist.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-28  7:48 UTC|newest]

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
2015-12-28  7:48 ` Peter Jeremy [this message]
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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