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Re:Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site Aft... by ktta on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:31PM (#15538512)
>he entered the information in digitally

This is Stephen's Hawking's PhD thesis. It is dated 1966. How could he have entered it digitally? UNIX research didn't even start until 1970s.

I believe this comment chain thinks the thesis was written recently. So you guys thought Stephen Hawking didn't have a PhD till now?

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Re:Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site Aft... by seanmcdirmid on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:06PM (#15538893)
Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expensive_Typewriter came out in 1961. Cool name also (because computer time was expensive back then!).
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Re:Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site Aft... by ktta on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:20PM (#15538938)
That looks interesting!

I quoted UNIX to show how primitive technology was at the time, rather than say he could've possibly used a computer. With ALS, using a computer would as hard as writing I would presume.

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