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Old 9th November 2008
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Originally Posted by ephemera View Post

> The famous one in Computer Science is one committed by John von >Neumann by putting a single clock in the heart of the computer despite >fierce opposition of the chief co-architect Dr. Lehman from U.C. Berkley >(Just like Dr. J) who wanted to put couple clocks and run programs in >parallel fashion. That effectively hindered the development of parallel >programming for half a century.

this is interesting. can you tell us more about it or point to any links?

That is not the part of the official history You have to know the people who created the history to find that out such details. John von Neumann is deceased but his daughter is alive and lives in Boston so this can get me into legal troubles. It is called defaming people.

Lets put this way. I know very well the guy (mister X) who is now 85 years who was Ph.D. student of late
Dr. Lehman at the time. For the record mister X was not my Ph.D advisor. We are just very good friends. My Ph.D. advisor was dealing with computers mostly through me!

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