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I Have a Feeling We're Not In Emerald City Anymore by Henry G. Baker . Статья о том, зачем и почему создавалась Ада. Цитата:
Even knowledge of the Ada Project's name required the highest clearances and a need-to-know. The code name itself was an inside joke: Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, was a famous armchair programmer/system architect who never in her entire life had gotten a single program to compile, link, or run. {An analogous joke would be giving an Air Force plane the name "Kiwi," after a flightless bird.} Ada's code name was finally declassified--extensive research had shown that no one ever got the inside joke. {`Project Ada' was not the first name suggested; `Project Potemkin' was rejected when it was realized that Soviets might recognize this old Russian ruse.}
"Finally, we come to the instruction we've all been waiting for – SEX!" / из статьи про микропроцессор CDP1802 / В начале 1970-х в США были весьма популярны простые электронные игры типа Pong (в СССР их аналоги появились в продаже через 5-10 лет). Как правило, такие игры не имели микропроцессора и памяти в современном понимании этих слов, а строились на жёсткой ...далее