15 Nov
2007
15 Nov
'07
5:49 p.m.
On Thursday 15 November 2007 09:38, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:22 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I don't think people know how, or that software is being written to deal with
doing things like this to it...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
There was a lot of clever thought and a lot of
elegance in early hardware
and software that seems sadly lacking in more current stuff. My recent
comment about WordStar's so apparently seamless switch from all-in-memory
to using a bunch of disk space I commented on recently being one example.
I have patched the living hell out of the copy of ws.com I used, doing
all sorts of stuff to it -- because I could! :-) Sure it took some
doing, but these days a lot of knowledge of that sort seems to be just
about lost completely. :-(
What, you can't patch ws.com anymore? ;)