Dennis Crawley <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu> wrote:

> Well you where right. Just see the 2nd mail I've received when I
> ask for the historic source.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <support@ti.com>
> To: <dennis.crawley@usa.net>
> ....
> The information I found on the renaming of the Fip-Flop was from
> the World Wide Web (Google). You might want to search there for the
> history of this product.

    Yeah, critical thinking and research skills are apparently no
    longer taught in schools.

    Most of the websites found by a Google search for 'jack kilby
    invented jk flip-flop' either refer to or directly copy citations
    from FOLDOC (the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing). I've
    corresponded with FOLDOC's owner, Denis Howe; he's removed from
    his dictionary the assertion that Jack Kilby invented the JK
    flip-flop and named it after himself... Although he still asks,
    parenthetically, whether those claims are true:

        http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?JK+flip-flop
        http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Jack+Kilby

    -Andy

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=== Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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