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Comment MPE/V and MPE/iX (Score 1) 257

MPE still runs code compiled in 1972.

The fact that no one uses is is the fault of HP and the petty marketing effort they put into.

AND the competetion.

Fortunately now there is the Charon emulator from Stromasys. (But only for those who have an original hardware license.) Otherwise you get a hobby license.

Another great HP marketing (and legal) move.

Comment The 1920's Radio Network (Score 1) 361

Public Radio has dedicated some stations to Big Band Era calling it The 1920's Radio Network. (It also contains Big Band era.)

I think it is the only place you'll hear Satchmo and Ella on the airwaves anymore. I never realized Satchmo sang Swanee until I heard it with mine own ears.

First time I heard Rosie the Riveter Song too. Sorry to hear the poster model died the other week.

And if it matters to the question at hand, I'm in my late fifties. (Note how good my grammar and spelling are.)

Comment Just Wait Until Judgement Day (Score 1) 152

The contract developer writes the app that drives the doomsday device. He hands it over to his government, which in turn uses the app and destroys the world.

So, on judgement day who gets thrown into hell first? The developer or the head of state that pushed the "Accept" button on the app?

(Which was no doubt, followed by the "Are you sure?" button.)

I guess that's why they call it the "kill chain" these days. From forward observer back to Pentagon down to shooter they are all ubiquitously linked.

Comment Re:Snake River? (Score 1) 678

Then perhaps I misheard.

I recall being told there was apparently "some" major river that flowed Southward from North, East California that isn't there anymore. I remember a professor showing us his aerial photo slides taken from a small plane following the extinct riverbed in his attempts to prove it.

Of course this wan the days before major releases of unclas Satellite Imagery. Who knows where his theory went.

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