The chief advantage of any kind of history is, IMHO, to reach the
understanding of how similar the past is to the present. This applies to
computer history as well. Only people who are familiar with it know that
the computers we use today (except uncommon parallel and analog
computers) are based on Von Neumann's theories more than 30 years ago.
There is no real advancement. There is multiplication of matrices by a
scalar value...
There is nothing new under the sun, as a very old book says.
>As mor as I learn about this 'dark ages' as less dark they
>apear. Not even very different from before or after (especialy
>not differentfrom now ).
>
>Gruss
>H.
>
>--
>Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
>HRK
>
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Received on Tue Oct 13 1998 - 14:22:52 BST