Re: 9 March 1900: Happy Birthday, Howard Aiken

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

From:                   "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date sent:              Thu, 9 Mar 2006 05:43:56 GMT

> Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 9, 1900, Hoboken, New Jersey–March 14, 1973, St.
> Louis, Missouri) was a pioneer in computing, being the primary engineer behind
> IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.

Ah, if only we'd all stuck with the Harvard architecture, all of us AVers would be 
out of a job right now.  (Except maybe some theoreticians studying the 
implications of the von Neumann architecture.)

Would have made development a bit more complex, though ...

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