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Re: [SLE] Gnome disappointment
- From: Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:02:29 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20051111030500.GF13818@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:21:28PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Allen wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:50:04PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:01 -0500, Allen wrote:
> >>> What you do the small speed boost may not matter, but in the 80s my teacher
> >>> was writing code for the 68K processor and you couldn't use C for that.
> >> Not sure what you mean here? It was and is certainly possible to use C
> >> on the 68000. Just one example was a machine called the 'Unicorn' from a
> >> company here in the UK called Torch. It not only ran a C compiler, it's
> >> native operating system was Unix.
> >
> > Weird. They had to use Assembler for pretty much everything. They used
> > those processors and.... I don't even know which OS, but they had a lot of
> > Unix.
> >
> > He told me back when he did this that Vi would only show one line at a time
> > and you'd have like thousands of lines of code and have to check something
> > a few lines up so you'd have to give the command to view it up in that area
> > or something.
>
> Perhaps he didn't know what he was talking about. Wouldn't be the first
> or last time that happened.
Mmmmm, usually I'd say yes to this, but this guy is one of the most
intelligent computer people I've ever met. He has like no arrogance about
him, but he knows he's not an idiot either. We get along good and I should
check with him about when the dates were where Vi did this supposedly.
I know Vi is "Visual" ed, but the first versions of it maybe did only do
one line at a time. Not positive about that though.
-Allen.
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> Allen wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:50:04PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:01 -0500, Allen wrote:
> >>> What you do the small speed boost may not matter, but in the 80s my teacher
> >>> was writing code for the 68K processor and you couldn't use C for that.
> >> Not sure what you mean here? It was and is certainly possible to use C
> >> on the 68000. Just one example was a machine called the 'Unicorn' from a
> >> company here in the UK called Torch. It not only ran a C compiler, it's
> >> native operating system was Unix.
> >
> > Weird. They had to use Assembler for pretty much everything. They used
> > those processors and.... I don't even know which OS, but they had a lot of
> > Unix.
> >
> > He told me back when he did this that Vi would only show one line at a time
> > and you'd have like thousands of lines of code and have to check something
> > a few lines up so you'd have to give the command to view it up in that area
> > or something.
>
> Perhaps he didn't know what he was talking about. Wouldn't be the first
> or last time that happened.
Mmmmm, usually I'd say yes to this, but this guy is one of the most
intelligent computer people I've ever met. He has like no arrogance about
him, but he knows he's not an idiot either. We get along good and I should
check with him about when the dates were where Vi did this supposedly.
I know Vi is "Visual" ed, but the first versions of it maybe did only do
one line at a time. Not positive about that though.
-Allen.
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