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Subject:Re: How old is the profession? From:Simon North <north -at- SYNOPSYS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:55:34 +0001
In my clippings collection I have a transcript of a piece of Egyptian
hieroglyphics (I believe it came from a Xerox commercial some years
ago) proported to be by a certain Ptahhotep, Vizier to Isesi, dating
from the Fifth Egyptian Dynasty, 2300 BC, which would support a claim
that our profession is at least that old.
Simon North north -at- synopsys -dot- com sintac -at- xs4all -dot- nl
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