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That's not reflected by the historical record of the U.K.'s post war pioneering computers, which I provided just one link to. Per Wikipedia Tommy Flowers could
by dfrage 7y ago
That's not reflected by the historical record of the U.K.'s post war pioneering computers, which I provided just one link to.
Per Wikipedia Tommy Flowers couldn't get a bank loan because he couldn't cite his cryptoanalysis machines as proof he could do what he claimed he could do. "False concerns of military secrecy" when we were in an existential cold war with international socialism? That put so much of Europe under Soviet occupation?
Or the cited severe lack of funding mechanisms and other things necessary for commercial success, going all the way to the concept of doing stuff outside the aegis of the government which included the public University of Manchester? The latter could and did make numerous record breaking computers, going at least as far as the early 1960s Atlas, a competitive microsecond cycle supercomputer that was the first to page. But this didn't translate into commercial success.