14 May
2010
14 May
'10
9:57 a.m.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:
it wasn't a claim. it was a question.
No, it wasn't. It was a bald statement, an assertion of something that
was not and could not be true. Same as the legendary
first-computer-on-the-Internet Sun workstation and the
OS/2-for-the-PDP-11.
The thing is, you're on a mailing list here. That means it's not live,
it's a self-archiving medium. You can't say something and then go back
and claim that you said something else, because we all have the
original message. We can very easily see what you actually did as
opposed to what you later say you did. You have a desire for
historical revisionism that is almost Stalinist.
it was what I was told (at the time) by the
university.
Then, as I have already said, you need to check out these claims
*first*, *before* you go repeating them and making yourself look like
a fool.
the language and structure is very suggestive that it
was a predecessor.
The chronology makes this impossible.
I could find *ZERO* documentation or references
anywhere on the net to
either valtrep or the sentry 70 system it ran on.
Which is strongly suggestive that you have incorrectly remembered the
events of the time. You have been given highly-plausible explanations
of possible such mistakes in understanding or recollection; you have
not responded to these at all.
so, like an idiot, I thought why not ask all these
smart people on this list for help,
surely someone else must have worked with it, must have seen this stuff.
surely some historical record exists of the language or at least the computers that ran
it,
certainly someone kind, and wise enough of these things could fill in the blanks, and
advise.
Again, many people /have/ volunteered suggestions. You have ignored
them or pooh-poohed them.
I still can't find any references, other than what
has been posted to the list.
so far it only goes back to the 70s, with no real historical evidence of even the company
that made
the computers that ran this stuff.
could it be earlier? yes, could it be later, probably.
again i refer to similar situations in etymology.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
but instead of kind words and help and guidance, I got
trolls.
You don't seem to know what that word means, either. As I have
explained and you've ignored.
that's not what this list is supposed to be about.
or at least, so I thought... wrong again?
It's a bunch of crotchety old geezers, mostly. Certainly I am. :?)
Come in and tell them loudly and repeatedly stuff that they know not
to be true and they are /not/ going to react kindly or supportively.
Personally, I think we've all shown tremendous restraint and tolerance
to these occasional outbursts of ill-informed utter tosh.
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