Re: Packet Loss

["Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr () baby-dragons com>]

        Hello David ,  'Whose children ...' & now know it as he has put it
        into writing & in public I might add ;-) .
        I think we all are getting (more)grey in the beard & else where .
                Twyl ,  JimL

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, M. David Leonard wrote:
>       Young people these days have it too easy,  Why, when I was a lad,
> we had to stay up all night slaving over cuneiform tablets, then load
> them into reed baskets on the backs of donkeys bright and early the
> following morning for the trek to the abacus room.  And none of that
> binary or decimal stuff, either - it was straight sexagesimal.  But try
> to tell the young folks of today was it used to be like and they ignore you.
>                                       David Leonard
>                                       ShaysNet
>                                       (whose children and grandchildren
> think he dates from the early Pleistocene)
>
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:53:06 EST, you said:
> > > In addition to the mylar punch tape the machine was usually an octal
> > > machine.
> >
> > The machine was binary. You grouped in bunches of 3 just to make it easier.
> >
> > As opposed to the IBM 1620 and similar *real* decimal machines. ;)
> > --
> >                             Valdis Kletnieks
> >                             Operating Systems Analyst
> >                             Virginia Tech

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