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On Friday 31 May 2002 9:46 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote:

> that is some awesome information. thanks for the link. So, it was the
> Brits who did it first?

Just like, inter alia, stored programming (Babbage), general-purpose 
computing (Turing) and the Web (Berners-Lee) :)

En passant there is a _big_ push just now to have Alan Turing honoured, 
largely as an apology for the past methinks; there is talk of putting 
his portrait on a banknote as, apparently, Elgar is getting on a bit in 
banknote terms (of the latest design the �5 has shown George Stephenson 
and Elizabeth Fry, the �10 Dickens and Darwin and the �20 Faraday and 
Elgar, so he would be in fantastic company :)

Alastair
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Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom)
http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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