__/ [ Peter Köhlmann ] on Saturday 02 September 2006 22:27 \__
> Hadron Quark wrote:
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>>> Plus hes english.
My nationality is German.
>> Thats ok. Englishmen invented computers and the "web".
You could say the same about GNU/Linux distributions, although much credit
must be given to FSF/GNU/RMS (Massachusetts), Torvalds (Finland) and
Tanenbaum (NYC, IIRC, before he move to Holland). I have had the pleasure of
woring with the creator of the first Linux distro.
See:
http://www.kde-files.org/content/files/44218-linuxdistrotimeline-6.8.2.png
It's MCC right there. I have just mended the Wikipedia page, which contained
a mild typo.
> Nope. Charles Babbage invented a sort of "computer", but never got to a
> real working one.
> The first working (programmable) computer was built by the german Konrad
> Zuse. It was called the "Z1", and it ran in the 1930s, long before the
> english built their first one to crack the enigma codes
Well, Alan Turing did some important work here in Manchester. And the first
(programmable) computer was created by Tom Kilburn (also Manchester), who
passed away a few years ago and had the building where I worked named after
him.
http://www.computer50.org/
Best wishes,
Roy
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