Note: the use of "fifth generation" here is referring to an MIT research project at the time on parallel computing; while that failed commercially, our current computing machinery is using many concepts from it, most notably multiple CPU/GPU cores
@thomasfuchs (sorry to barge into your replies like this… you’re not obliged to answer of course, but I’m very confused and had to leave it somewhere 😅)
who the hell is *Carl* Zuse, and what’s he supposed to be doing in England?
what are the three instances supposed to be, when only the United States and England were listed? is it supposed to be ENIAC, Bombe, Z3, but Alan Turing got merged with Konrad Zuse somehow?