2011/9/12 Barry MacKichan barry.mackic...@mackichan.com:
Ok, I'll contribute to this one. I learned programming on a IBM clone --a
clone of an IBM 1620 at Oregon State University in 1960.
We wrote a few programs and then were told about a fabulous new tool called
SOAP, the symbolic optimum
On 2011-09-13 07:43, Shrisha Rao wrote:
El sep 13, 2011, a las 3:00 a.m., Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) escribió:
Tobias Schoel wrote:
Shouldn't real dinosaurs (real as in MTV Real Life) calculate using only the
Peano Axioms and the unary system? I mean, the natural numbers and the peano
Ah, when one had to wear a suit to approach a computer :-)
On 13 September 2011 07:05, Janusz S. Bień jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl wrote:
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Phil,
Now I come to think of it, at that 1993 meeting at RHBNC, I seem to recall
that one of the participants was glowing with pride because he had with him
a portable computer that was running unix.
I say portable, but his legs were buckled at the knee as he staggered
around, and the strap dug
Hello.
I was sent some useful information about hyphenation in Malayalam script and
I'm modifying hyph-sa.tex accordingly. If there's a specialist around
(dinosaur or mammal, it doesn't matter in this case), it would help me a lot if
he could answer the following questions.
Can a chillu
Comparative dinosaurism
Completely by chance today, I came across one of my old files that had a
bunch of 8 floppies in it. Hah! (And I've got a slide rule too.) I win!
Dominik
On 12 September 2011 15:00, maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:46:11 +0100, Philip
Shouldn't real dinosaurs (real as in MTV Real Life) calculate using only
the Peano Axioms and the unary system? I mean, the natural numbers and
the peano axioms are nature given / god given (choose whatever you like)
and every human before homo sapiens had only the cognitive capabilities
to
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:40:57 +0200, Tobias Schoel
liesdieda...@googlemail.com wrote:
Shouldn't real dinosaurs (real as in MTV Real Life) calculate using only
the Peano Axioms and the unary system?
I believe binary arithmetic was introduced somewhere in the pre-Cambrian.
This was because when
Tobias Schoel wrote:
Shouldn't real dinosaurs (real as in MTV Real Life) calculate using only the
Peano Axioms and the unary system? I mean, the natural numbers and the peano
axioms are nature given / god given (choose whatever you like) and every
human before homo sapiens had only the
2011/9/12 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk:
Tobias Schoel wrote:
Shouldn't real dinosaurs (real as in MTV Real Life) calculate using only the
Peano Axioms and the unary system? I mean, the natural numbers and the peano
axioms are nature given / god given (choose
Ok, I'll contribute to this one. I learned programming on a IBM clone --a clone
of an IBM 1620 at Oregon State University in 1960.
We wrote a few programs and then were told about a fabulous new tool called
SOAP, the symbolic optimum assembly program. No more memorizing the numbers of
machine
Cool discussion! It's the first thing in years that's actually made me feel
young.
Peter Baker
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On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Barry MacKichan barry.mackic...@mackichan.com
wrote:
Ok, I'll contribute to this one. I learned programming on a IBM clone --a
clone of an IBM 1620
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 Barry MacKichan barry.mackic...@mackichan.com wrote:
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All input was on paper tape. The equivalent of the delete key, as I
recall, was opaque tape that you could stick on the paper tape.
Or punching all the holes in the row.
My first computer was GIER
El sep 13, 2011, a las 3:00 a.m., Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) escribió:
Tobias Schoel wrote:
Shouldn't real dinosaurs (real as in MTV Real Life) calculate using only the
Peano Axioms and the unary system? I mean, the natural numbers and the peano
axioms are nature given / god given
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