From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:18:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:18:37 -0400 Received: from 216-60-128-137.ati.utexas.edu ([216.60.128.137]:52130 "HELO tsunami.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:18:16 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@webofficenow.com To: Joel Jaeggli Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix. Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:17:09 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062510170903.04704@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote: > 1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits," > > 1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information. > > without those you're kind in trouble on the computing front... Yeah, I know I've bumped into that name (and probably taken notes) somewhere. Hmmm... Might be from "Where wizards stay up late", or might have been an article linked from slashdot... (I don't THINK it was mentioned in "Hackers"... Rodents, where was the reference... Crystal fire? That's mostly hardware. Accidental Empries? Doesn't sound right... Can't have been "Fire in the valley" because I haven't read that yet, it's still sitting on the bookshelf. Not soul of a new machine, that's post-digital Equipment Corporation...) I THINK that's in the set of notes that's on the box that's not hooked up right now... (Shortage of monitors at home.) This was the dude who decided to apply a binary and boolean approach to electronic computation, right? I KNOW I've read some stuff about him... late last year? Now I remember. Slashdot linked to his obituary: http://www.bell-labs.com/news/2001/february/26/1.html Rob The list for this discussion is: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/penguicon-comphist