Ebay GT-40 in the Netherlands
Paul Koning
paulkoning at comcast.net
Wed Apr 15 09:30:50 CDT 2015
> On Apr 14, 2015, at 5:17 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> From: Paul Koning
>
>>> One of the great Dutch achievements in computer science:
>
>> The correct description is "one of the great achievements in
>> computer science".
>
> Take that set of things. There's a sub-set which are due to Dutch
> people/institutions. That's what/all I meant.
Yes, I agree with that.
>
>> From: Simon Claessen
>
>> I'm not THAT old... :-)
>
> What, you think I am? :-) It's called 'knowing your field's history', like
> knowing what Bohr's atomic model was, if you're a physicist…
Now I feel my age — since the first programs I wrote ran on that system. Well, I was only barely a teenager, but still...
paul
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