* Tim Smith fired off this tart reply:
> On 2007-12-18, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been on usenet at least as far back as Feb 28, 1984:
>
> <http://groups.google.com/group/net.unix-wizards/msg/bdd2d3b2889d6c5c?dmode=source>
>
> That's almost 24 years.
1. I'd like to know how the hell that stuff got archived 24 years ago,
and survived to this day, when you can't even find a good rebuttal to
this:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.computers/msg/99ce4b0555bf35f4
QUESTION: I read in a newspaper that in 1981 you said, ``640K of
memory should be enough for anybody.'' What did you mean when you
said this?
ANSWER: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but
not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a
certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
(Note the weasel wording. He adds "for all time". Why?)
2. "&& and || do not mean the same thing to sh and csh. In fact
they mean exactly the opposite! This can be annoying."
You seem to have gotten a little more strict about your meanings as
you aged <grin>.
3. {decvax,ucbvax}!ihnp4!sdcrdcf!trwrb!wlbr!callan!tim
Ahhhh, the old bang-paths.
4. Around that time, I was a grad student, and our access to the UseNet
was through distillations retrieved and posted by some sysop at
Vandy.
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Tux rox!
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