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by goatinaboat 2071 days ago
You might as well say not enough credit goes to Tommy Flowers, a man I have always admired for his ground-breaking work building Colossus.

Well that is the class system, Tommy was working-class whereas Alan Turing was a posh boy who went to boarding school and Cambridge. So of course he was airbrushed out.

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There's also a certain prejudice against people who do practical things, which I have certainly been aware of while working in IT.