Corrections to trivia

From: Hans Franke <franke_at_sbs.de>
Date: Tue Oct 6 11:44:49 1998

>> Babbage was not the first to come up with the idea of a computer, but you
>> can trace the development of modern computers back to him. You can't do
>> anything like that with Holt's chip -- it had no influence. Maybe there
>> were other Big Bangs before The Big Bang, but if they didn't create a
>> Universe, nobody cares.

> I think this attitude in general carelessly disregards an amazing body of
> work.

I always belives it's a kind of anglo american attitude
toward non US (and GB) archievments around the world, but
I'm glad to see that it's even comon within.

SCNR
Gruss
H.

--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Tue Oct 06 1998 - 11:44:49 BST

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