Hindsight is a wonderful thing :-) On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 at 21:55, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> You didn't read The World According to ARPA? As for the WWW, I'd rather we > had stuck to Gopher. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf > of Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2020 4:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: REXX true/false (was Constant Identifiers) > > Loss of Internet access would have been sheer luxury! (insert The Four > Yorkshiremen sketch here) as this was the 1980s :-) The Internet was > there, but nobody had heard of it unless he was the sort of geek who > soldered his own modem cable, and WWW was probably not even a twinkle in > timbl's eye :-) > > On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 at 20:56, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > All REXX implementations use 0 and 1 for false and true. But I agree that > > loss of Internet access is crippling. May this be the last time. > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
