1 Sep
2015
1 Sep
'15
7:55 p.m.
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> | Funny point: the abstract calls Cray "the ultimate "tall, thin | man"*." but the notes on slide three call him the penultimate one. I | wonder who the ultimate one is if the notes are correct. I emailed Gordon Bell about this and he says that he was mistaken about the meaning of "penultimate" when he wrote that. I used "penultimate" in a draft of my masters thesis but my supervisor suggested replacing it with "second last" because it was more likely to be understood and in no way inferior. He was right.