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Yes, a lot of machines were built for military purposes. The foremost engineer at Bletchley Park was mr. Turing. ...diverging for just a moment, all post von newman architecture seems like an ugly mess compared to the mathematical simplicity of the Turing machine. Check out 180 maybe turing is making a comeback.

he has been making grandious claims about his software for years

From the whitepaper:

One final quote is useful; from a paper Turing gave in 1945, which describes, almost prophetically, what we have accomplished with ORIGIN. "There will positively be no internal alterations to be made even if we wish suddenly to switch from calculating the energy levels of the neon atom to the enumeration of groups of order 720". In modern terms we would say that there will positively be no internal alterations in moving from a spreadsheet to a graphics package to an airline reservation system, all use the same "software procedures", the only difference in the applications being in the sequence in which the "software procedures" are processed. The applications developed with the set of "software procedures" are themselves quite tiny, taking only a few dozen bytes for applications that, within the conventional approach, take tens and hundreds of thousands of bytes.

Well, it does all sound pretty revolutionary, and too good to be true. But life is strange.... and maybe CS took a wrong turn after Turing, and maybe Bernard Hodson (who was part of Alan Turing's department at the University of Manchester) has understood this, and maybe redressing such a fundamental mistake will revolutionise computing. And maybe the Establishment won't listen. Maybe he'll be dismissed as a quack.

he has been making grandious claims about his software for years

From the whitepaper:

One final quote is useful; from a paper Turing gave in 1945, which describes, almost prophetically, what we have accomplished with ORIGIN. "There will positively be no internal alterations to be made even if we wish suddenly to switch from calculating the energy levels of the neon atom to the enumeration of groups of order 720". In modern terms we would say that there will positively be no internal alterations in moving from a spreadsheet to a graphics package to an airline reservation system, all use the same "software procedures", the only difference in the applications being in the sequence in which the "software procedures" are processed. The applications developed with the set of "software procedures" are themselves quite tiny, taking only a few dozen bytes for applications that, within the conventional approach, take tens and hundreds of thousands of bytes.

Well, it does all sound pretty revolutionary, and too good to be true. But life is strange.... and maybe CS took a wrong turn after Turing, and maybe Bernard Hodson (who was part of Alan Turing's department at the University of Manchester) has understood this, and maybe redressing such a fundamental mistake will revolutionise computing. And maybe the Establishment won't listen. Maybe he'll be dismissed as a quack.

So what if the folks at one80 have a flawed understanding of a turing machine. So what if one80 is using FORTH to get it done. Their claim is that they have a full 1.2 compliant, not just personal java, implementation that is tiny. Pretty cool.