Article on Cycling in today's Guardian

[Clive George]

"Mike Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

>> Give me back my LISP Machine!
>>
> Spectrum?

Thepectrum, thurely?

cheerth,
clive

 

[Simon Brooke]

in message <[email protected]>, Mike Jones
('[email protected]') wrote:

> "Simon Brooke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> in message <[email protected]>, Dave Larrington
>> ('[email protected]') wrote:
>>
>> > Neither. Give me OpenVMS any day. However, some bletcherous Thing
>> > I am obliged to use on a daily basis now fails because "a pds
>> > member name has to be 8 chars or less R0196N100 never gets
>> > written."
>> >
>> > Whatever that means. Bah!
>>
>> Knowing nothing whatever of the matter, I suggest that R0196N100 is
>> more than 8 characters, and whoever was responsible for the software
>> which generates pds members (whatever they are) with the prefix
>> R0196N never envisaged there being more than 99 of them.
>>
> I *was* going to say that - honest!
>
>> I hate, I hate, I hate, arbitrary limits on things. Software that
>> imposes small arbitrary limits causes me to wail loudly, and to gnash
>> my teeth in a most fearsome manner.
>
> Nah, makes it more of a challenge. (Chants: 8.3's enough for me!)
>
>> Give me back my LISP Machine!
>>
> Spectrum?

Well, mine were Dandelions (1108s) and Daybreaks (1186s), but there you
go.

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[Just zis Guy, you know?]

On Mon, 23 May 2005 16:21:39 +0100, Simon Brooke
<[email protected]> wrote in message
<[email protected]>:

>Give me back my LISP Machine!

Or I'll thcream and thcream and thcream until I make mythelf thick.


Guy
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