John Miller-Kirkpatrick

John Miller-Kirkpatrick (August 1946 – December 1978) was a British computer scientist.[1]

Works

The Scrumpi,[1] a crude computer sold in kit form (1976).

gollark: I don't think, in many cases, you could just swap out a file for a TCP stream or datagram not-stream and expect all the code dealing with it in an application to work fine.
gollark: Applications have to handle them differently, and the kernel does too.
gollark: There's a significant difference between "send datagram" and "push to a stream" and, i don't know, "wait for an inbound TCP connection".
gollark: Still, though, I don't think having all this stuff as read/writeable "files" when the semantics are different is good.
gollark: I basically just want to receive packets from ff02::aeae port 44718 on all interfaces and send them too, and I can't tell what operations that maps to.

References
  1. Smith, Tony. "Britain's forgotten first home computer pioneer". Retrieved 10 December 2013.



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