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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.
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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.
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