Trivia Question

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Fri Feb 21 20:06:00 2003

Jim Battle wrote:
> I've had the discussion with workmates about the following scenario. If
> the German forces had access to a single 5150 IBM PC back in 1940,
> would the war have ended very differently? I think it would have.

Entirely with you on this one. How fast could a Blechley-style project
create useful software from nothingness? Less than six months.
I was there once (a peacetime project).

John A.
"How many people died because of what I thought up?"
   -- Jarrod, The Pretender
Received on Fri Feb 21 2003 - 20:06:00 GMT