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* [TUHS] OT: Happy birthday, Ken Iverson!
@ 2015-12-17  5:12 Dave Horsfall
  2015-12-17  5:26 ` Gregg Levine
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2015-12-17  5:12 UTC (permalink / raw)


Ken Iverson was born in 1920; he is (in)famous for inventing APL.  And if 
you haven't used APL\360 on a dumb Kleinschmidt[*] terminal, you didn't 
miss anything.

[*]
And that's the first time I've seen a spell-checker suggest that it be 
replaced with "Consummated".

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."



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* [TUHS] OT: Happy birthday, Ken Iverson!
  2015-12-17  5:12 [TUHS] OT: Happy birthday, Ken Iverson! Dave Horsfall
@ 2015-12-17  5:26 ` Gregg Levine
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gregg Levine @ 2015-12-17  5:26 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hello!
And Dave his annoying language is my age........
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> Ken Iverson was born in 1920; he is (in)famous for inventing APL.  And if
> you haven't used APL\360 on a dumb Kleinschmidt[*] terminal, you didn't
> miss anything.
>
> [*]
> And that's the first time I've seen a spell-checker suggest that it be
> replaced with "Consummated".
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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