20 May
2018
20 May
'18
1:29 p.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay West
via cctalk
Sent: 20 May 2018 21:02
To: 'Fred Cisin' <cisin at xenosoft.com>; 'General Discussion: On-Topic
and
Off-Topic Posts' <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: RE: Happy Armed Forces Day 2018
Fred wrote...
d) The TRULY IMPORTANT issues will never be solved through the use of
armed
forces:
big-endian V little-endian
vi v emacs
DEC V IBM
CDC V IBM
TRS80 V Apple
Atari V Commodore
IBM V Apple
Android V IOS
Linux V Windoze V MacOS
number of buttons on a mouse
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You left off top-posting, and reply-to-list.
J
From some of the threads on this list and elsewhere I
would have thought
that the use of armed forces would actually be a good way to
resolve these
issues once and for all ;-)
Oh, and I would add tabs vs spaces to the list.
Regards
Rob