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Old 9th November 2008
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like Knuth we started with PCC then switched to a completely unrelated topic.

can the moderators fork this thread?

> 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?

BSDfan666, sorry for hijacking the thread.

> U.C. Berkley (Just like Dr. J)

Oko, don't get me wrong, I was just being a fanboy and I didn't mean it that way.

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