[News] Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled | ANN.lu |
Posted on 15-Jun-2002 15:12 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 45 comments View flat View list |
Newsforge reports: "In a move that appears to be a coup for Michael Robertson et al, Wal-Mart's online store is offering eight different Microtel PCs with LindowsOS included. The computers sell for USD$299 to $599 and ship in one to seven days."
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Posted by Anonymous on 17-Jun-2002 07:03 GMT | In reply to Comment 27 (Darrin): Not to start a war here, but from what I've read the British claims to
breaking any Enigma code are completely false, and complete distortions of
history.
The Poles broke all the Enigma codes, and gave all their information to
the British and others.
Gordon Welshman a British mathematician and codebreaker, who eventually got his book
published in 1979 called "The Hut Six Story," unequivocally states that
the British Ultra "would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned
from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military Enigma
machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use."
So, needless to say, that without the information that the Poles and specifically
Marian Rejewski, the Polish Mathematician who solved the Enigma Cipher Machine the
British wouldn't have had a clue. The fact is that Rejewski had already broken all
Egnima codes, and passed that information on to the allies.
A well researched and documented link can be found here:
http://home.us.net/~encore/Enigma/text.html |
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