From: "Andrew Louie" <louiea@gmail.com>
To: "The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Sounds interesting
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5abc24640706280722u40c42626uf1d6000e4408445@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001201c7b930$37eee3c0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On 6/27/07, Dave Korn wrote:
> Nah, he means it. Windows 200(BC) ran on most contemporary abacuses,
> although many had to have more beads and thicker wires installed to handle the
> heavy system load it imposed. Known to the Romans as "Windows CC", it was the
> first operating system to allow you to send a message to several citizens at
> once (by dispatching a bunch of slaves in parallel), and to this day we still
> refer to a secondary destination for an email in a "CC" line.
Actually the key difference between windows 200 and other modern
abacuses at the time, was that windows 200 required an extra bead for
line breaks, which lead to many headaches for abacuses users trying
get their windows 200 programs to run on more modern abacuses.
--
-Andrew Louie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-27 21:52 Christopher Faylor
2007-06-28 0:17 ` Robert Pendell
2007-06-28 1:07 ` One Angry User
2007-06-28 2:49 ` Ed C. Lueless
2007-06-28 2:59 ` Dave Korn
2007-06-28 4:01 ` Warren Young
2007-06-28 14:22 ` Andrew Louie [this message]
2007-06-29 4:45 ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2007-06-28 1:09 ` Matthew Woehlke
2007-06-28 10:17 ` Saro Engels
2007-06-28 11:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-06-28 16:21 ` Matthew Woehlke
2007-06-28 17:30 ` Saro Engels
2007-06-28 18:45 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-06-28 18:53 ` Dave Korn
2007-06-29 14:42 ` Igor Peshansky
2007-06-29 1:16 ` Robert Pendell
2007-06-29 2:37 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-06-28 1:00 ` Cesar Strauss
2007-06-28 1:10 ` Matthew Woehlke
2007-06-28 7:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2007-06-28 11:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-06-28 12:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2007-06-28 14:31 ` Igor Peshansky
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