From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-04-04T20:36:23+09:00
Subject: Re: PHP in rubyforge?

hmm.
not to mention, vacuum tubes are extremely good for amplifying circuits.
still used in high powered radar.

On Apr 4, 2007, at 8:08 PM, Peter Hickman wrote:

> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> I struggled through two years of Russian in college because  
>> someone had told me that the Russians were ahead of the USA in  
>> math and computer science. Hell, it turned out that they were  
>> still using vacuum tubes and the only thing they knew how to do  
>> better than we did was probability theory. I should have learned  
>> French instead -- or Japanese.
>>
> The use of vacuum tubes provided a significant defence against EMP  
> or weapons designed to scramble the electronics, any system built  
> around vacuum tubes is less likely just to pack up. This would have  
> allowed the Soviet fighter planes to be operational in the same  
> theatre as nuclear weapons were being used. Of course this was  
> probably a happy coincidence and not a design decision.
>