Happy Armed Forces Day 2018

Rob Jarratt robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com
Sun May 20 15:29:21 CDT 2018



> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> ------------
> 
> 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



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