Did your steam-powered difference engine run VMS? Mine did. *ugh*
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Ken Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Anton J Aylward wrote:
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> ---[snip]---
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> >Back in the days I was still hacking V7 kernels, I
>
> that was right after i got my first computer...a steam-powered
> Difference Engine with a coal-fired boiler.
>
> ---[snip]---
>
> >Aesthetically, I find 'salvation thru suffering' a
> >philosophically unsound precept, along with 'baptism
> >by fire'. However, my observation is that these are
> >certainly ways of accelerating th learning process,
> >so long as you are willing to tolerate the attrition
> >rate. Could we produce larger numbers slower?
> >I don't know.
>
> i have to disagree. all the liberal arts degrees floating around are bad
> enough. no need to make CS degrees just as easy to get. we need quality,
> not numbers.
>
> >/anton
> >
> >
> >## Reply End ##
> >
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> Ken Williams
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