Re: SCWC 46 results

On Jan 28, 5:37 am, Frangipani <pyti...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 26 Jan, 23:12, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Jan 26, 5:27 pm, Flying Tortoise <purple....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 26, 9:54 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 26, 3:05 pm, "rthea...@xxxxxxxxxxx" <rthea...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

SCWC 46 Results and comments
  Calculator fetched by a taxi returning to America (6)

  Old number cruncher in a taxi heading back to the States  (6)

These work, but the image of Mexico exporting PDP-11's by taxicab
isn't
exactly enamouring.

Would Canada be any more credible?

I have absolutely no idea what a PDP-11 is but I'm pretty sure that
the surface is intended to suggest that the 'number cruncher' in
question is human!

A physics major in my dorm my senior year in college (1971-72) had a
PDP-2 (or so) in his room -- it was a computer that used punched paper
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Can PDP here stand for Parallel Distributive Processing? What some

Did that expression exist in 1971? It became known to linguistics ca.
1990.

hard-AI people (e.g. at MIT and similar) have hailed as a practical
assimilation of neural networking, and thus closer approximation of
human learning processes than ever before achieved? Seems a powerful
thing to have had in your room as a student in 1971-2.

Well, he _was_ a physics major. And an oboist.

Might PDP-11 really have been PDP-II, i.e. (roman) 2?-

You'll have to check with OP for that one!
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