On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 05:53:57AM -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > Ok, it is OT and Friday is coming... ;-) > > The oldest computer can be traced back to Adam and Eve. > > Surprise! Surprise! > > It was an Apple. In Paradise Land. > > But with extremely limited memory. > > Just 1 byte. Then everything crashed. > > ;-D
Unless we are living in a simulation, in which case the really, really, one, ultimate, oldest computer had been booted seven days before this "apple". Or something like this... Were those "wall clock days" or "user days" (as given by /usr/bin/time; and was IO time accounted for)? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
