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Letter: Letters : Stoneware

Published 24 May 1997

From Jon Stoppi

by e-mail

Kate Charlesworth’s cartoon on the “The world’s first computer crash”
(Feedback, 5 April) is inaccurate. Stonehenge did in fact boast protected
memory and pre-emptive multitasking, so that any two stones could crash
without affecting the others.

Issue no. 2083 published 24 May 1997

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