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engaged in a process of knowledge and technology transfer were acting with the full
knowledge and authority of the authorities I have cleared the way for historians of
computing to consider for the first time the extent to the British government played an
active part in fostering and directing technological innovation and development in the
immediate aftermath of the war.
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