[TUHS] Happy birthday, Jon von Neumann!

Kurt H Maier khm at sciops.net
Mon Dec 28 06:36:24 AEST 2015


On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 06:23:50AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Jon von Neumann was born in 1903; without him, we probably wouldn't have 
> had computers at all (but we could've had a Wintel version, I suppose, 
> wherein everything is controlled by BB).

Sure we would have had computers.  We just wouldn't have had privilege
escalations based on stack smashes.  That guy ruined the ENIAC!

khm



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