No worries Dave.  I was a die hard moto fan.  And I’m the first to tell you
the Intel ISA is wretched. But what I have learned is that it does not
matter.  They are all dataflow systems internally at this point.

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 11:56 AM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Feb 2020, Dan Cross wrote:
>
> > Perhaps I've sent this story to TUHS before, but I can't resist.
> > "finger: the most inappropriately named command in computerdom" (no,
> > that's not a challenge...).
>
> [ Hilarious story ]
>
> Back in ye olde Usenet days, someone had an animated .plan which was all
> about the "Andalusian snail" (the "@" character was the snail).  It used
> ANSI escape sequences, showing it in the 25th line (the "status" line),
> and was quite funny.
>
> Of course, you had to have the right speed; too fast, and it just zipped
> past, and too slow, well, it, just crawled along :-)  ISTR that 9600 was
> about right.
>
> Anyone remember that?
>
> Oh, my .plan in those days said "To rid the world of Intel chips" (sorry
> Clem, but this was back in the days of Intel vs. Moto).  It now reads "To
> rid the world of M$ software" but these days the finger service is
> generally blocked.
>
> -- Dave

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