PDP-8 /e/f/m memory - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Aug 2006

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Subject: Re: PDP-8 /e/f/m memory
   From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
   Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:54:51 +0100 (BST)
     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org

 Of 75 emails this morning, 44 (including 4 of mine) were on the subject of
 PDP-8 memory.  From those only two provided any information on the subject.
 A few were well off track.   Signal to noise -13db!  In any other media
 that far down in the noise would be an unreadable signal. 
Oh come on....

Firstly, this is, as I am sure you agree, not a list to provide answers 
to members questions. It's a discussion list. So of course topics are 
going to drift (alas they sometimes drift too far in odd directions, and 
I'll admit to causing that sometimes) 
Indeed!  Most of those emails were thread drift.

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 Secondly, we don't know what you know. Both in the
sense that you are a 
very experienced hacker, and have more knowledge on many subjects than 
the rest of us. And in the sense that even if we both know something, I 
don't know that you know it. So of course there'll be messages that 
'state the obvious'. 
Very experienced hacker and professional engineer.  

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 And finally, if somebody makes a statement that you
believe to be in 
error it is, I think, sensible to explain why you think it's wrong. That 
way we all learn something. 
If it were only that.

I thought the avalanche if posts on the subject vaguely curious and 
somewhat funny.

Allison