7 Feb
2020
7 Feb
'20
4:17 a.m.
No worries Dave. I was a die hard moto fan. And I’m the first to tell you
the Intel ISA is wretched. But what I have learned is that it does not
matter. They are all dataflow systems internally at this point.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 11:56 AM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020, Dan Cross wrote:
--
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
Perhaps I've sent this story to TUHS before,
but I can't resist.
"finger: the most inappropriately named command in computerdom" (no,
that's not a challenge...).
[ Hilarious story ]
Back in ye olde Usenet days, someone had an animated .plan which was all
about the "Andalusian snail" (the "@" character was the snail). It
used
ANSI escape sequences, showing it in the 25th line (the "status" line),
and was quite funny.
Of course, you had to have the right speed; too fast, and it just zipped
past, and too slow, well, it, just crawled along :-) ISTR that 9600 was
about right.
Anyone remember that?
Oh, my .plan in those days said "To rid the world of Intel chips" (sorry
Clem, but this was back in the days of Intel vs. Moto). It now reads "To
rid the world of M$ software" but these days the finger service is
generally blocked.
-- Dave