Pez:

Heh, heh... thanks for your thoughtful additions to my comment.

It seems that the all suffering US Taxpayers stand on the backs of giants!

Best Regards for the New Year.

--
Peter K1PO
Indialantic By-the-Sea, FL.


"pez" wrote in message
...
Dear Mr. Peter O. Brackett,

But of course, we

...
|
| don't forget to thank the, often vilified,
| US Taxpayers for their unwavering support of
| the development of all of the free computer program implementations of
| circuit-theoretic,
| field-theoretic and QED models with the computer programs called SPICE,
NEC
| and other QED kinda stuff...
|
...

although, I am afraid, we have also to add,
somewhere in the beginning of an everlasting list,
at least those who supported Pythagoras of Samos:

http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt

And so on...

d;^)

But,
apart from the fact of this slightest omission,
I have already forwarded your remarkable message.

Sincerely yours,

pez
SV7BAX
TheDAG

P.S.
Excuse me,
I do not believe it is really needed,
but just in case:

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~his...ythagoras.html