Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!bct From: bct@its63b.ed.ac.uk (B Tompsett) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Fortran follies Message-ID: <1510@its63b.ed.ac.uk> Date: 28 Jun 88 11:31:25 GMT References: <800@garth.UUCP> Reply-To: bct@ecsvax.ed.ac.uk (Brian Tompsett) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, U.K. Lines: 20 In article <800@garth.UUCP> writes: >>In article <10757@ames.arc.nasa.gov> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) writes: >>What burns me up about these figures is that some literature has IBM >>making vectors legit (e.g., didn't they invent virtual memory? ;-) "Don't mind > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >(I Thought It Was Somebody English Like Atlas) Yes. IBM purchased the world patent rights from Manchester University for some paltry sum. The University though it A good deal at the time :-). After all, Government scientists of the day thought that only one or two computers would ever be needed in the world. Brian. -- > Brian Tompsett. Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, > JCMB, The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, EDINBURGH, EH9 3JZ, Scotland, U.K. > Telephone: +44 31 667 1081 x2711. > JANET: bct@uk.ac.ed.ecsvax ARPA: bct%ed.ecsvax@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk > USENET: bct@ecsvax.ed.ac.uk UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!ed.ecsvax!bct > BITNET: ukacrl.earn!ed.ecsvax!bct or bct%ed.ecsvax@uk.ac