From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain)
Subject: [TUHS] PR1ME - was Re: And now ... Weirdnix?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:09:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e14a9fa0-bcc7-ca94-aaf2-793d1a873b59@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709191146190.89458@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 2017-09-18 9:54 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 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?
>
The name clearly doesn't reference the concept of prime numbers; that's
only coincidence (and the incompatibility might have been a clue).
Isn't it more obviously connected to Latin 'primus', meaning 'first'?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prime#Etymology_1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-19 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-17 7:03 [TUHS] " 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
2017-09-19 7:07 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-19 14:09 ` Toby Thain [this message]
2017-09-17 15:08 ` Nemo
2017-09-18 23:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-04 5:58 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-10-04 16:15 ` George Michaelson
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