People at UC Berkeley claim that it was invented there, by David Patterson
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,87093,00.…
Since folk at UC Berkeley also can't spell, my license plate frame reads
"UC Berkeley Aluminum". In case I get a British car, I have a spare one
that reads "UC Berkeley Aluminium"
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at
xenosoft.com