In message <[email protected]>, Magnus Danielson writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> As far as I know, the first RNG to be connected to a computer was this >> one: >The first analog random generator that was hooked to any form of digital >circuit must be the random generator used to generate the key-records >used in the SIGSALY system during WWII. I think that is not the case, I have found references to some telephone queue-simulations done with punched cards involving a radioactive decay as a RNG. I have not found the original document though. -- 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.
