Old farts and new Linux

Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Mon May 3 21:25:04 UTC 2004


On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0400, Eric Feldhusen wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> >On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:04:32PM -0400, B.J. McClure wrote:
> >
> >A bunch of tadpoles on this thread. IBM 360s, PDP-11s, all new
> >stuff. _I_ worked on the world's first silicon based computers, in a
> >project on what is now called Salisbury Plain, England, about 5,000
> >years ago.
> >
> >So there.
> 
> Sounds like some interesting stories, do tell. :-)

I suspect some of the stories have been told...  Are you one of the
guys that chiped out the big black rock that Knuth talks about in his
book "Surreal Numbers" by Donald E. Knuth.

All this time I thought the book was fiction.


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