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pholy · 10-13-2011, 02:22 PM

The Economist posted a story about dmr many years ago. I wondered why I found it. - LinkedIn posted it without any other text.

It's hard to imagine how we could have current PCs, smartphones, and tablets without the creation of a language like C, or an operating system like Unix.

10-13-2011, 02:22 PM	#12
pholy Booklegger Posts: 1,801 Karma: 7999816 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Device: BeBook(1 & 2010), PEZ, PRS-505, Kobo BT, PRS-T1, Playbook, Kobo Touch	The Economist posted a story about dmr many years ago. I wondered why I found it. - LinkedIn posted it without any other text. It's hard to imagine how we could have current PCs, smartphones, and tablets without the creation of a language like C, or an operating system like Unix.