From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:09:16 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] PR1ME - was Re: And now ... Weirdnix? In-Reply-To: References: <8AA943A2-D6C0-4812-9C16-C09D1298754F@tuhs.org> <20170917144909.DB27FA585CB@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> <201709180831.v8I8V6LB021088@freefriends.org> Message-ID: 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