In message <[email protected]>, "Bob Camp" writes: >Hi > >If you do a Google for SIGTOT you head off to another bunch of people who >hook RNG's up to various things. My *guess* is that they likely hooked one >up to a computer back in the 1940's...
Interestingly, this does not seem to be the case. It was thought about at various points, but everybody reached the same conclusion: too slow, and went with PRNG instead. >As far as I know, the first RNG to be connected to a computer was this >one: > http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/DASK_rng.pdf The danes reached the same conclusion, but not until after they actually built their device... Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
