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>As for the computer, I was not mocking or disputing. I was stating what
>people recognize as fact. Hey, at least I didn't say it was IBM. I AM
>surprised to hear that the germans did that in 1941 though. The NAZIS used
>a DUTCH PATENTED machine to create codes. If they could have used the computer
>to create better ones, it could have saved a lot of battles for them. Once
>the allies got that patent, the encryption was all but worthless, especially
>with the habits that the nazi soldiers and government had in correspondence.
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And, well, OT, and FYI, if we are at it: Von Neumann was not German (or
Austrian), as you might have guessed, but a Hungarian. His original name
was "Ja'nos Neumann". Unfortunately(?), he has published his theories in
German, as it was usual at that time, thus comes the "Von" part...
- Cs.
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