From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] And now ... Weirdnix?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:54:22 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709191146190.89458@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201709180831.v8I8V6LB021088@freefriends.org>
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> That Pr1me had a Unix emulation layer is news to me (I think). I worked
> on the Georgia Tech Software Tools Subsystem for Pr1me Computers for
> several years. (Oh, how I wish I had saved that last release tape!!!)
What I hated about Pr1me was they implied that "1" is prime; it is not, as
any mathematician will tell you.
In fact, I turned down a job opportunity there for precisely that reason,
on the grounds that if they got a simple concept like that wrong, then
where else did they screw up?
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-19 1:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-17 7:03 Warren Toomey
2017-09-17 7:28 ` arnold
2017-09-17 8:10 ` David Arnold
2017-09-17 12:52 ` Adam Sampson
2017-09-17 14:23 ` Steve Simon
2017-09-17 18:50 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-17 19:01 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2017-09-18 12:02 ` arnold
2017-09-17 14:49 ` Dennis Boone
2017-09-18 7:27 ` Nigel Williams
2017-09-18 8:31 ` arnold
2017-09-18 10:39 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-09-18 11:59 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-09-19 1:54 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-09-19 7:07 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-19 14:09 ` [TUHS] PR1ME - was " Toby Thain
2017-09-17 15:08 ` [TUHS] " Nemo
2017-09-18 23:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-04 5:58 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-10-04 16:15 ` George Michaelson
[not found] <mailman.1035.1505674910.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-09-18 11:41 ` [TUHS] " David
2017-09-18 13:15 ` Chet Ramey
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