From: Josef Chessor (josefcub_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 12:01:14 PDT
> OK, I take it all back... now can we argue some other OT? Maybe the
> points of a heavy projectile/low velocity vs. light projectile/high
> velocity? Or maybe what might have happened had industry gone with a
> decimal rather than binary machine language? How 'bout Ford vs. Chevy?
> Maybe better to avoid OT's in the future all together... that's what I
> intend to do.
Wasn't ENIAC decimal? I seem to recall reading that. It was either
ENIAC, or one of its immediate successors. What would Newton be like
with a decimal-based processor I wonder...
;)
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