Re: The history of the MONITOR tops-10)

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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:11

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Gareth's Downstairs Computer   <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> writes:

> On 15/07/2018 20:00, Peter Flass wrote:
>> Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On 15/07/2018 11:03, Huge wrote:

>>>> I find the word "ripoff" problematical. Virtually everything in computer
>>>> science is based on something else. Thinking "that's a good idea" and
>>>> re-using it in a new and interesting way is hardly "ripping off".

>>> ISTR that it was Isaac Newton who said that we stand on the shoulders
>>> of giants.

>> Or, midgets are standing on my shoulders.

> Larger fleas have smaller fleas
> Upon their backs to bite 'em.
> Smaller fleas have lesser fleas,
> And so ad infinitum.

Swift.

IIRC.

-- 
Rich Alderson					  ne...@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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