06-22-2005, 06:46 PM | #2 |
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Bah. Robert Noyce invented the microchip at the same time. In fact, Noyce is more directly responsible for the "invention" that we're using, because he went on to co-found Intel.
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06-23-2005, 01:47 AM | #4 |
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You two ever hear of Al Gore?
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06-23-2005, 07:02 AM | #5 | |
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I thought he only invented the internet. |
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06-23-2005, 08:53 AM | #6 |
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Nope. Popular misconception.
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06-23-2005, 08:56 AM | #7 |
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Al Gore is a liar and didn't invent anything!
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Depends on who's side of it you're reading. The bottom line is that we all use PC's with Intel (or Intel clone) CPU's - not Texas Instruments. (yes, there are the exceptional Mac and Sun users on different processors - but let's leave the freaks out of this discussion) |
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06-23-2005, 12:51 PM | #9 |
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West Coast Bias...
...and what chip you're using at the current time has nothing to do with the invention of the original. It is a byproduct thereof (though I have no problem, unlike Kilby and Noyce, who were in court forever over the patent, with sharing the glory for the two of them).
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Nah... just an Intel bias... but, then again, that's who I work for. |
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06-23-2005, 01:14 PM | #11 |
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God bless him.
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Well the New York Times called him:
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They also called him "Inventor of the Microchip", so being in first counted.
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06-23-2005, 03:39 PM | #13 |
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I'm really sick and tired of all the dumbasses who take that Al Gore quote completely out of context
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06-23-2005, 04:22 PM | #14 | |
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I gotta agree with that sentiment. It's not as if he said he invented the internet, as it was claimed- but he sure as hell did get a lot of the cash to get it off the ground. Both Cerf (re: "father of the internet", DARPA, TCP/IP) and Andreesen (re: Mosiac, Netscape) have both come out strongly in defense of the claim that Gore did help fund the research that let to the internet today. SI
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06-23-2005, 04:27 PM | #15 |
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Shit, the guy who invented the RealDoll died?
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06-23-2005, 06:25 PM | #16 |
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John Atanasoff invented the digital computer.
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