Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-16 Thread Andrew Simmons
> > This list gets downright goddamn surreal at times. > > khm > > You say that as if it’s a bad thing.

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-16 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
thanks. not surreal; just careless :) yes, sl's link to 9p.io archive is the one i was remembering. > This list gets downright goddamn surreal at times.

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-16 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com>: at one point there was a web page with images of many (maybe all) K&R C covers from various prints and translations. i think it was a page that dmr had created (or perhaps bwk, i can't remember exactly). i can't seem to find it now. This list gets

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
at one point there was a web page with images of many (maybe all) K&R C covers from various prints and translations. i think it was a page that dmr had created (or perhaps bwk, i can't remember exactly). i can't seem to find it now. >> On Jun 16, 2015, at 3:48 pm, Kim Shrier wrote: >> >> My co

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Andrew Simmons
> On Jun 16, 2015, at 3:48 pm, Kim Shrier wrote: > > My copy of the first edition from 1978 has a white cover with blue lettering. > > Kim > > Mine did too. The one on the show is clearly not the second edition, but has a light blue cover with darker blue lettering, apart from the “C”, whic

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Kim Shrier
My copy of the first edition from 1978 has a white cover with blue lettering. Kim

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015, at 04:52 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:06:48 +1200 Andrew Simmons > wrote: > > As the subject line says, wildly off-topic. But some-one here might know = > > the answer, and it=E2=80=99s been bothering me. > > > > Such are my failings, I=E2=80=99ve been watc

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Steven Stallion
ISTR the first edition cover was green on white, but that could have been a reprint (or a faulty memory). Steve On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Andrew Simmons wrote: > Thanks, but it seems as if that web page is for the 2nd edition. I have > two copies of this, one of which is much thicker tha

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Andrew Simmons : So my question is, did there ever exist an edition of K&R in that Quoting Andrew Simmons : Thanks, but it seems as if that web page is for the 2nd edition. ok, still yes. The linked page is for all editions. khm

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Andrew Simmons
Thanks, but it seems as if that web page is for the 2nd edition. I have two copies of this, one of which is much thicker than the other, despite having the same number of pages, but that’s a different wildly off-topic topic. I used to have a copy of the 1st edition, and I’m sure that the backgro

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:06:48 +1200 Andrew Simmons wrote: > As the subject line says, wildly off-topic. But some-one here might know = > the answer, and it=E2=80=99s been bothering me. > > Such are my failings, I=E2=80=99ve been watching the second series of = > =E2=80=9CHalt and Catch Fire=E2=80=

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
It's always GCC. On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Andrew Simmons wrote: > As the subject line says, wildly off-topic. But some-one here might know > the answer, and it’s been bothering me. > > Such are my failings, I’ve been watching the second series of “Halt and > Catch Fire” in order to catch

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread sl
> So my question is, did there ever exist an edition of K&R in that > colour scheme, or is gcc to blame for the inaccuracy? The old web page for the book had a nice collection of covers from around the world: http://9p.io/cm/cs/cbook/index.html sl

[9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Andrew Simmons
As the subject line says, wildly off-topic. But some-one here might know the answer, and it’s been bothering me. Such are my failings, I’ve been watching the second series of “Halt and Catch Fire” in order to catch up with what the kids are up to these days. In the second episode one of the cha