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Tim Cook wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> I am 75% sure that the C64 would *automatically* indent your code. As
>>> in, if you wrote a FOR-NEXT loop, the loop body would automatically
>>> appear indented, and there was nothing you could do about it.
>>
>> I had one, and I can guarantee that it didn't.
>
> Screenshots or it didn't happen.
You want a screen shot of an obsolete system that I had more than twenty
years ago?
I don't have my computer from *five* years ago, let alone the C64!
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Chambers
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Darren New wrote:
> Or even on sophisticated hardware. 1994 or so I needed to do compression
> testing (i.e., figure out whether JPEG works), so I wound up buying a
> $3000 graphics board for the Sun workstation so I could see 24-bit color.
Was that one of the Targa boards? I remember reading about them, and
thinking how cool it would be to use one!
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Chambers
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Warp wrote:
> David H. Burns <dhb### [at] cherokeetel net> wrote:
>> Another *really* impressive piece of software. It won't run on an XP
>> machine, of course.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox
>
Do you have your newsreader post these little reminders automatically,
or you do actually go to the effort of manually proselytizing DOSBox? :)
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Chambers
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Chambers wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Or even on sophisticated hardware. 1994 or so I needed to do
>> compression testing (i.e., figure out whether JPEG works), so I wound
>> up buying a $3000 graphics board for the Sun workstation so I could
>> see 24-bit color.
>
> Was that one of the Targa boards?
Yes! Of course I remember the brand of a video card my employer installed
in a work computer 15 years ago! NOT!
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
back to version 1.0."
"We've done that already. We call it 2.0."
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Chambers <Ben### [at] gmailcom_no_underscores> wrote:
> Do you have your newsreader post these little reminders automatically,
> or you do actually go to the effort of manually proselytizing DOSBox? :)
If the subject is about running old DOS programs, do you have any better
suggestion?
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- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Chambers <Ben### [at] gmailcom_no_underscores> wrote:
>> Do you have your newsreader post these little reminders automatically,
>> or you do actually go to the effort of manually proselytizing DOSBox? :)
>
> If the subject is about running old DOS programs, do you have any better
> suggestion?
>
No, it's just that I've gotten to the point where I can predict when
you're going to post a link to it. Rather like knowing that if someone
posts a comment about inefficient programming, Andy will comment on
Haskell ;)
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Chambers
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:47:58 -0400, clipka wrote:
>
>> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>>> Bill was quoting Monty Python there, just in case you're unfamiliar
>>> with The Life of Brian. :-)
>> Duh - and I didn't recognize it...
>
> What does that say about both of us? ;-)
>
> Jim
http://www.xkcd.com/16/
;)
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Chambers
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On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:33:53 -0700, Chambers wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:47:58 -0400, clipka wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>>>> Bill was quoting Monty Python there, just in case you're unfamiliar
>>>> with The Life of Brian. :-)
>>> Duh - and I didn't recognize it...
>>
>> What does that say about both of us? ;-)
>>
>> Jim
>
> http://www.xkcd.com/16/
>
> ;)
LOL
Ying tong iddle i po!
Jim
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On 2 Aug 2009 13:18:26 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:33:53 -0700, Chambers wrote:
>
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:47:58 -0400, clipka wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>>>>> Bill was quoting Monty Python there, just in case you're unfamiliar
>>>>> with The Life of Brian. :-)
>>>> Duh - and I didn't recognize it...
>>>
>>> What does that say about both of us? ;-)
>>>
>>> Jim
>>
>> http://www.xkcd.com/16/
>>
>> ;)
>
>LOL
>
>Ying tong iddle i po!
>
>Jim
You dirty rotten swine. You deaded me!
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Regards
Stephen
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Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2009 13:18:26 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:33:53 -0700, Chambers wrote:
> >
> >> Jim Henderson wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:47:58 -0400, clipka wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> >>>>> Bill was quoting Monty Python there, just in case you're unfamiliar
> >>>>> with The Life of Brian. :-)
> >>>> Duh - and I didn't recognize it...
> >>>
> >>> What does that say about both of us? ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Jim
> >>
> >> http://www.xkcd.com/16/
> >>
> >> ;)
> >
> >LOL
> >
> >Ying tong iddle i po!
> >
> >Jim
> You dirty rotten swine. You deaded me!
Now if the Python quote went unrecognised, I wonder how many people won't get
that one... :)
"Neddy, do you know they're sending up a rocket to photograph the other side of
you?"
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