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[Alex Martelli]

"Carel Fellinger" <cfelling at iae.nl> wrote in message
news:94q35s$6bn$1 at animus.fel.iae.nl...
    [snip]
> > dedicated IBM mainframe with a few CPU's and 'vector features',
> > or equivalent (3rd party vector-processing units for the same
> > class of mainframe).  It _was_ 1985 before 'we' (actually
> > some brilliant HW guys in IBM Research) turned out special-
>
> Ah that project (mid 80-s IBM Research), it's claims *stunned* us at
> the time!

Yep, _that_ one:-).  I still have the T-shirt around with our
"P(A|B)=P(B|A)P(A)/P(B)" motto of that time...:-).


> > for occasional [and inadvertent] lack-of-pause between two
> > adjacent words... which occasionally made HER go wrong, too!).
>
> striking similarity, makes me wonder: your father build a bot before?

Hmmm, given he's a coroner, this makes me think of Frankenstein-
monster like scenarios:-).


Alex