People at UC Berkeley claim that it was invented there, by David Patterson http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,87093,00.html Since folk at UC Berkeley also can't spell, my license plate frame reads "UC Berkeley Aluminum". In case I get a British car, I have a spare one that reads "UC Berkeley Aluminium" -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com