21 Feb
2003
21 Feb
'03
12:06 p.m.
Jim Battle wrote:
I've had the discussion with workmates about the
following scenario. If
the German forces had access to a single 5150 IBM PC back in 1940,
would the war have ended very differently? I think it would have.
Entirely with you on this one. How fast could a Blechley-style project
create useful software from nothingness? Less than six months.
I was there once (a peacetime project).
John A.
"How many people died because of what I thought up?"
-- Jarrod, The Pretender