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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: Why no hardware random numbers?
Message-ID: <1146@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 12:34:29 EST
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1146
Posted: Thu Mar 21 12:34:29 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Mar-85 01:48:47 EST
References: <868@utcsri.UUCP> <2139@wateng.UUCP> <1139@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
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Summary: 

In article <1139@hcrvx1.UUCP> hugh@unix.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier) writes:
>In article <2139@wateng.UUCP> pdbain@wateng.UUCP (Peter Bain) writes:
>>The Ferranti Ferret (I believe), one of the very early machines (made in
>>Canada) had a hardwired random number generator.
>Ther name was Ferrut (Ferranti at U of T).  It was actually mostly a
>British machine (a commercialized version of one of the Manchester
>machines, if I remember correctly).

it was the commercial version of the Manchester Mark I.  it's architecture
is outlined in a CACM special issue on computer architecture about 1979.
Herb...