Sounds interesting

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

> Andrew Louie
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:22 AM
> To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List
> Subject: Re: Sounds interesting
> 
> On 6/27/07, Dave Korn  wrote:
> >   Nah, he means it.  Windows 200(BC) ran on most contemporary 
> > abacuses, although many had to have more beads and thicker wires 
> > installed to handle the heavy system load it imposed.  Known to the 
> > Romans as "Windows CC", it was the first operating system 
> to allow you 
> > to send a message to several citizens at once (by 
> dispatching a bunch 
> > of slaves in parallel), and to this day we still refer to a 
> secondary destination for an email in a "CC" line.
> 
> Actually the key difference between windows 200 and other 
> modern abacuses at the time, was that windows 200 required an 
> extra bead for line breaks,

...called a "line bead"...

> which lead to many headaches for 
> abacuses users trying get their windows 200 programs to run 
> on more modern abacuses.
> 
> 
> --
> -Andrew Louie

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Gary R. Van Sickle