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Re:WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigm... by emmelaich on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:44PM (#18072609)
It's terrible as to the details, but that's movies for you.

Anyone wanting to know more should read "Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence"[1]

Which the movie script is alleged to be based upon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing:_The_Enigma

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Re:WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigm... by mirimir on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:48AM (#18073681)
And then there's Rudy Rucker's Turing & Burroughs.[0]

> What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, escaped assassination by the secret service to become the lover of Beat author William Burroughs? What if they mutated into giant shapeshifting slugs, fled the FBI, raised Burroughs’s wife from the dead, and tweaked the H-bombs of Los Alamos? A wild beatnik adventure, compulsively readable, hysterically funny, with insane warps and twists—and a bad attitude throughout.

0) http://www.rudyrucker.com/turingandburroughs/

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