From: Grant Taylor via COFF <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: coff@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [COFF] Vaxen, my children, just don't belong some places
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 23:25:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c8feda2-c7f6-675d-ebc8-acb26c1c8baf@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2110191550360.18067@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On 10/18/21 10:51 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> [ Warning: you need to be an OF to understand the references ]
I guess I'm enough of an OF to understand and appreciate much of what's
sed. At least I think so.
> I don't think I've ever posted this here... And trust me, an IBM 3090
> was really big iron in those days.
I compared someone to Mel earlier today. They used an unimplemented I/O
instruction as a delay. It reminded me of putting the next instruction
at the sector that just passed the read / write head, thus causing a
delay waiting for it to come all the way around again.
> I don't recall the author, but I found it on the 'net.
I don't remember the first place I saw VAXen my children... but I know
that I have always appreciated it. I've even put a copy of it on my
website.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-19 5:36 UTC|newest]
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2021-10-19 4:51 Dave Horsfall
2021-10-19 5:25 ` Grant Taylor via COFF [this message]
2021-10-19 6:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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