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From: David Hume <David.Hume@example.com>
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Subject: Re: HP split into two
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:52:36 +0000
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Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> writes:

> On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:28:50 +0000, David Hume
> <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
>
>>philo <philo@privacy.net> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> He told me that HP once made products that no one else could make...and now
>>> they just make products that no one else wants to bother with.
>>
>>There is the memristor.
>
> Implemented in 1960 to make neural networks. It's only taken 55 years
> for HP to notice!
>

According to wikipedia, memristor and memistor are not to be
confused. The term memristor is attributed to Leon Chua in 1971.