Re: Anybody have a context for "Hartley = 3.216 bits'?

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From: mar... Martin Baines - Sun UK - ...
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 15:10

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In article <82...@scolex.sco.COM>, graemet (Graeme Thomas - UK (random
uid)) writes:
|> >                                    Anybody have any idea who Hartley was?
|> 
|> He was a researcher with the original Cambridge group led by Maurice V
|> Wilkes, in the 40s and 50s.  When I was in Cambridge about 15 years ago
|> he was the head of the Computer Laboratory.  I'm afraid that I cannot
|> remember much else about him.

In fact David Hartley is the head of the Computer Service at Cambridge
(They have "separation of functions" between the lab and the service:
a bit like the US constitution :-). 

I remember hearing a story about how and why Wilkes coined the
term, but for the life of me I can't remember it!

Martin Baines
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From: mar...@bottomdog.East.Sun.COM (Martin Baines - Sun UK - Technical Account Executive Cambridge)
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