29-10-2017, 11:46 AM
Thanks, JKP and Rene, for your insights. It did seem as though many of Richard's points were highly speculative, and that he would need to keep digging for a "smoking gun" to get beyond the shadow of a doubt on his hypothesis. But I very quickly get lost in the numerous historical details surrounding the manuscript; I tend instead to fixate on the math and computer science angles to the VMS.

