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[Poll] Computing favorities

Started by"Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid>
First post2015-08-19 14:31 -0400
Last post2015-09-23 08:01 -0400
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  [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 14:31 -0400
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2015-08-19 14:53 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 16:18 -0400
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-19 22:06 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-20 11:23 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Trog Woolley <trog@email.fake> - 2015-08-22 14:48 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 09:05 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 16:17 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-19 20:23 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 17:19 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-20 07:07 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities mausg@mail.com - 2015-08-20 08:06 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-20 15:23 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-20 18:00 +0100
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-20 15:51 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-08-20 14:08 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-20 18:15 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2015-08-20 17:41 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-20 00:40 +0100
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-19 22:06 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2015-08-19 21:29 +0100
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-20 11:17 +0100
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hankvc@blackhole.lostwells.org (Hank) - 2015-08-22 21:48 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-19 17:08 -0400
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 17:24 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-19 22:04 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-08-25 13:07 +0000
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-20 15:56 -0500
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-20 18:18 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-08-20 23:21 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-21 02:02 +0200
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-08-19 14:28 -0700
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities mausg@mail.com - 2015-08-20 08:13 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-20 11:21 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-20 14:09 -0400
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-20 11:51 -0700
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-20 14:22 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-20 12:56 -0700
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2015-08-20 23:29 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-21 07:26 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2015-08-21 23:05 -0500
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2015-08-20 23:24 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-21 06:07 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-19 22:00 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-19 22:05 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca> - 2015-08-19 18:11 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 18:33 -0400
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-08-19 22:33 -0600
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-20 11:44 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2015-08-20 07:36 +0100
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-08-20 13:25 -0400
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Mike Causer <m.r.causer@goglemail.com> - 2015-08-20 20:11 +0100
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-21 07:02 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-20 19:15 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-21 02:06 +0200
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 14:58 -0400
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities David Jones <djones60@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 06:04 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Daiyu Hurst <daiyu.hurst@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 06:37 -0700
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-08-21 15:10 +0100
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-21 09:20 -0700
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-21 16:27 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-21 17:02 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-22 00:40 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 15:54 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:28 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-26 13:44 -0700
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-21 23:37 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-22 08:28 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 19:28 +1000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-22 08:28 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-22 09:25 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-22 12:13 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-22 08:29 -0700
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-22 14:16 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-22 13:16 -0700
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:57 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 05:36 +1000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:55 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 15:09 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:24 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-25 13:36 -0700
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-25 20:40 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:07 -0400
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-31 20:31 -0400
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 18:04 -0700
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-03 16:20 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-25 16:01 -0700
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:04 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-31 20:23 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-25 20:34 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:29 -0500
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2015-08-23 00:01 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-22 23:22 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-23 07:04 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-23 10:47 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 09:29 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 16:04 -0500
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:54 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-23 15:22 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 17:23 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 21:25 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 19:12 -0400
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 10:24 +0200
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-24 05:24 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-22 14:10 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-23 01:01 +0200
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-22 16:48 -0700
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 15:58 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-25 06:52 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-25 12:09 +0100
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:14 -0500
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-26 04:03 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-08-26 21:56 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-26 19:03 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-26 23:41 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Mike Causer <m.r.causer@goglemail.com> - 2015-08-27 20:00 +0100
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-27 16:16 -0500
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 21:31 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-28 13:20 -0700
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-28 15:39 -0500
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-28 20:51 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-28 22:53 -0700
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 08:59 +1000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2015-08-21 23:15 -0500
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities bert <bert.hutchings@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-22 01:46 -0700
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-08-22 18:01 -0600
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-24 13:58 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-21 12:59 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 09:17 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 16:39 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 13:49 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-23 13:25 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 15:21 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 05:46 +1000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2015-08-23 20:41 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 09:50 +0200
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 20:38 +1000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 14:48 +0200
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-24 13:20 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-24 14:04 +0100
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-24 17:33 +0200
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-25 13:34 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-25 13:38 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-25 18:23 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-25 19:46 +0100
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:03 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 04:31 +1000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 21:19 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 07:52 +1000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 09:19 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 20:44 +1000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-08-24 19:16 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 20:43 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 08:37 +1000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Mike Causer <m.r.causer@goglemail.com> - 2015-08-27 20:45 +0100
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-24 05:24 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-24 11:12 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 04:40 +1000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-24 16:47 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 08:53 +1000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-25 10:10 -0700
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-25 13:36 -0500
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-25 14:58 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 14:45 -0500
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-26 04:03 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 09:37 -0500
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:19 -0400
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities pechter@S20.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) - 2015-08-25 20:32 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 16:55 -0500
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:16 -0400
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-26 11:14 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 21:33 +1000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 09:37 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-26 18:48 +0100
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 15:12 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 11:09 +0100
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-27 09:29 +1000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:40 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-27 10:15 -0400
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-28 05:17 +1000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 07:19 -0700
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 15:05 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 15:33 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:13 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:03 -0500
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 04:51 +1000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:00 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 06:30 +1000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-25 20:38 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 07:36 +1000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:10 -0500
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 07:42 -0700
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-26 18:58 -0400
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-26 23:40 +0000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-27 01:13 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-26 21:55 -0500
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 06:53 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 11:11 +0100
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-27 11:37 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-08-27 08:54 -0400
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 19:23 -0700
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:40 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 14:19 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-27 12:11 -0700
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 07:16 -0700
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-26 16:08 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 11:32 -0700
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-26 14:59 -0400
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 15:20 -0400
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 19:12 -0700
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 13:41 +1000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-27 07:06 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 11:20 +0100
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 11:32 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-27 11:37 +0000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-27 09:42 -0700
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-27 13:54 -0500
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Trog Woolley <trog@email.fake> - 2015-08-29 17:13 -0500
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-28 05:42 +1000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-28 02:10 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 08:06 -0500
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-27 14:38 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-26 13:33 -0500
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 15:26 -0400
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 11:23 +0100
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 11:30 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-27 14:35 +0200
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-27 14:17 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-27 10:33 -0700
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-27 11:36 -0700
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-27 11:37 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.co.uk> - 2015-08-27 12:27 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 16:46 +0100
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-27 16:10 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 17:49 +0000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:40 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-27 10:17 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 14:21 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-27 14:23 +0000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 15:39 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-27 09:53 -0700
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-28 05:51 +1000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-11 18:47 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-12 11:23 +1000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-12 13:24 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-28 07:54 -0700
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-28 19:16 +0100
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-28 12:22 -0700
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-28 19:48 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-29 13:41 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2015-08-29 17:50 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-30 06:56 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-30 14:58 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 06:35 +1000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 06:10 +1000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-28 19:31 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 05:57 +1000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-29 13:41 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-29 08:59 -0500
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-30 05:35 +1000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-30 14:58 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-30 16:02 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-31 12:09 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 14:48 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 10:03 -0700
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 10:07 -0700
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-31 17:30 +0000
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 11:26 -0700
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 18:53 +0000
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-31 20:11 +0000
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 14:22 -0700
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 18:53 +0000
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 12:21 -0700
                                                        Response time Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-15 17:23 -0400
                                                          Re: Response time Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-15 22:30 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2015-08-31 16:20 -0700
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-01 12:50 +0000
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 05:19 +1000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 04:59 +1000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-15 16:19 -0400
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-16 12:54 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2015-08-30 10:41 -0700
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-16 13:01 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-09-17 08:29 -0400
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 06:38 +1000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 04:54 +1000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-29 13:41 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 06:11 +1000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-28 05:19 +1000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 04:43 +1000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-27 09:39 -0700
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 18:09 +0100
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-27 13:51 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-28 08:40 +0100
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-29 14:54 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-29 20:12 +0100
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-29 15:21 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-29 19:30 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-29 22:10 -0400
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-30 05:22 +0100
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-30 06:51 +0100
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-30 14:58 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-30 16:02 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-30 14:06 -0400
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-31 06:43 +1000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-09-02 15:03 -0500
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 14:02 -0700
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-09-02 22:46 -0700
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-03 09:36 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-03 07:29 -0700
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-03 20:01 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-03 13:25 -0700
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-09-03 21:53 +0100
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-09-04 10:58 +0000
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-04 18:17 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-09-03 15:41 -0700
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-08 10:28 -0700
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-09 00:39 +0000
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-09-08 20:56 -0700
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-24 13:02 -0400
                                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-25 12:59 +0000
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-09-09 10:12 +0000
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-09-10 08:35 +0100
                                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-15 18:26 -0400
                                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-15 18:27 -0400
                                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-15 18:28 -0400
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-09-09 07:02 -0500
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-09-09 14:40 +0000
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-09 07:02 -0700
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-09-09 15:41 +0100
                                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2015-09-09 17:59 +0200
                                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-09-10 11:17 +0100
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-30 16:42 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-09-02 14:56 -0500
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 17:25 -0500
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-31 13:48 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-31 13:51 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-31 18:17 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-31 16:04 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-31 19:12 +0100
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-31 13:42 -0500
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 18:53 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-28 12:21 -0400
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-29 12:32 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-09-30 15:34 -0400
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2015-10-01 01:38 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hankvc@blackhole.lostwells.org (Hank) - 2015-10-01 16:27 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-10-01 15:21 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-10-02 03:34 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-02 13:11 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-02 13:11 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-10-02 07:32 -0700
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-10-02 13:46 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-10-02 13:09 -0700
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-10-06 19:44 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-31 19:10 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 20:09 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-31 21:00 +0000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-31 12:15 -0700
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-31 20:31 +0100
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-31 19:41 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-31 22:04 -0500
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-01 18:46 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-09-01 15:38 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 08:13 -0700
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-09-03 00:17 +0200
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 08:10 -0700
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 08:05 -0700
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-26 21:21 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-27 05:42 +1000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-08-27 08:59 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-27 10:02 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 16:49 -0500
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:15 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-27 15:35 -0500
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-24 23:09 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 09:43 +1000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-25 06:55 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 17:19 +1000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-25 09:10 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 19:23 +1000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-25 11:26 +0000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 04:43 +1000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-24 15:01 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 16:22 -0500
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 15:39 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:18 -0500
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-31 20:38 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 08:35 +1000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 15:37 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:27 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 07:36 -0700
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:32 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-24 16:52 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-25 10:16 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-26 04:03 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-24 12:22 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 08:41 +1000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-23 18:47 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 15:16 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 17:18 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 21:20 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 17:31 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 09:55 +0200
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 07:53 +1000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 09:18 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-24 01:17 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 10:28 +0200
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-24 12:40 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 13:18 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 04:34 +1000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-23 22:39 +0100
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 09:16 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-24 10:34 +0100
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-24 10:58 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-08-24 13:04 +0100
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-24 14:09 +0100
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-24 14:52 +0100
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-24 16:41 +0100
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-24 19:29 +0100
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-08-24 15:32 -0700
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-25 07:16 +0100
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-10-07 18:38 -0400
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-07 19:26 -0500
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-08 08:46 +0200
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-08 21:50 +0200
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-09 13:28 +0000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-09 10:25 -0400
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-09 18:07 +0300
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-09 11:24 -0400
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-09 10:55 -0500
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-09 12:18 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2015-10-09 20:49 +0100
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-09 16:42 -0500
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-09 15:45 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-10-09 17:32 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-09 19:20 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-09 19:32 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-09 15:36 -0400
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-09 20:56 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-10 16:21 +0100
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2015-10-09 17:51 -0400
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-09 22:51 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-09 22:55 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2015-10-10 04:27 +0100
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-10 09:57 +0100
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-10-10 17:09 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-10 13:57 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-10 18:05 -0500
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-10 00:30 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-10 09:01 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-10 03:38 -0700
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-10 11:22 +0000
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-10 18:13 -0500
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-10 23:57 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-10 09:24 -0400
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-10 11:33 -0400
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-10 20:20 +0300
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-10 15:22 -0400
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-11 09:39 +0100
                                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 13:23 -0400
                                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2015-10-11 17:56 +0000
                                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 14:18 -0400
                                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-11 12:24 -0700
                                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-12 00:06 +0000
                                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2015-10-12 07:17 +0000
                                                        OT: systemd (was: [Poll] Computing favorities)     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-10 10:44 -0700
                                                          Re: OT: systemd Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-10 15:29 -0400
                                                          Re: OT: systemd Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-10 22:31 +0300
                                                            Re: OT: systemd Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-11 09:41 +0100
                                                              OT: Wayland (was: systemd)     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-11 09:06 -0700
                                                                Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 13:31 -0400
                                                                  Re: OT: Wayland     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-11 10:36 -0700
                                                                    Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 14:15 -0400
                                                                      Re: OT: Wayland Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-11 19:53 -0300
                                                                        Re: OT: Wayland Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-10-12 02:45 +0200
                                                                          Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 22:43 -0400
                                                                            Re: OT: Wayland Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-12 02:58 -0300
                                                                              Re: OT: Wayland Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-12 08:34 +0100
                                                                              Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 08:28 -0400
                                                                                Re: OT: Wayland Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-13 00:58 -0300
                                                                                  Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-13 13:21 +0000
                                                                                    Re: OT: Wayland Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-13 14:07 +0000
                                                                                      Re: OT: Wayland Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-13 16:55 +0100
                                                                                    Re: OT: Wayland Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-13 13:24 -0300
                                                                                      Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-13 17:43 +0000
                                                                                        Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-13 16:09 -0400
                                                                                          Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 13:07 +0000
                                                                                            Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-14 09:20 -0400
                                                                                              Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 14:26 +0000
                                                                                                Re: OT: Wayland Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-14 16:41 +0200
                                                                                                  Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 15:50 +0000
                                                                                                Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-14 10:47 -0400
                                                                                                  Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 15:52 +0000
                                                                                                    Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-14 12:59 -0400
                                                                                            Re: OT: Wayland Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-10-14 14:45 +0100
                                                                                              Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 14:32 +0000
                                                                            Re: OT: Wayland Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-10-12 13:05 +0100
                                                                              Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 08:31 -0400
                                                                                Re: OT: Wayland Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-10-12 13:38 +0100
                                                                                  Re: OT: Wayland Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-12 16:41 +0000
                                                                            Re: OT: Wayland Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-10-12 18:15 +0200
                                                                        Re: OT: Wayland Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-10-12 05:24 +0000
                                                                    Re: OT: Wayland Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-12 00:19 +0300
                                                                      Re: OT: Wayland Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-11 21:46 +0000
                                                              Re: OT: systemd Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 13:24 -0400
                                                                Re: OT: systemd Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-12 00:25 +0300
                                                                  Re: OT: systemd Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 18:37 -0400
                                                          Re: OT: systemd (was: [Poll] Computing favorities) Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-10 19:38 +0000
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-10 18:08 -0500
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2015-10-11 17:31 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-10 11:23 -0400
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-10-10 17:34 +0000
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2015-10-10 19:28 -0400
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-11 07:12 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-10 19:45 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-10 07:12 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-10 00:39 -0700
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-10 09:16 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-10 10:11 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-10 18:21 -0500
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-11 10:55 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-11 04:45 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "John E. Davis" <jed@jedsoft.org> - 2015-10-12 17:53 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-10 18:01 -0500
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-10 23:57 +0000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-09 15:03 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-09 15:46 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-09 16:30 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-09 18:15 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-09 18:57 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-09 20:15 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-09 15:09 -0700
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-09 20:52 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-08 21:17 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-08 12:07 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-08 13:15 -0500
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-08 05:14 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-08 13:06 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-08 12:29 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-08 12:44 -0500
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-08 15:37 -0500
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-08 19:19 -0700
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-09 06:26 -0500
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-09 16:40 -0500
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-09 16:14 +0000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-09 16:46 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-24 07:29 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-24 13:20 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-24 12:10 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-24 00:06 +0100
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 13:02 +1000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 23:35 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-10-07 12:19 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-23 15:27 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-24 01:17 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 13:10 +1000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 16:28 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 16:27 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 05:48 +1000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-23 21:32 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 07:57 +1000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-24 00:00 +0100
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 21:18 +0000
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-23 11:31 -0700
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-23 12:08 -0700
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-24 08:22 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-08-24 19:29 +0000
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-24 18:37 -0400
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-24 18:38 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-08-24 15:54 -0700
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-25 10:21 -0700
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 04:55 +1000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-24 18:41 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 08:47 +1000
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-24 16:25 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-08-24 14:05 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-17 04:19 -0700
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-23 08:01 -0400

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#150857

FromMichael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Date2015-08-31 13:51 -0400
Message-ID<alpine.LNX.2.02.1508311348380.2378@darkstar.example.org>
In reply to#150838
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:
>>
>> <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message
>> news:8fc839ca-edbd-449c-b261-f19d24a37ef0@googlegroups.com...
>> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 6:30:02 AM UTC-4, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>> Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's - so
>>> it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
>>> FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.
>>
>> BASIC was developed in the early 1960s, long before C et al were developed
>
> For some value of "early 1960's (1964)" and "long before C" (BCPL was 1966,
> B in 1969 and C in 1972)".
>
To be fair, until the later languages came along, living through that 
period would be "long".  It's only once they arrive, and provide something 
different and sometimes even better that the period becomes less of a 
wait.


>
>>
>>    I know the thing I dislike about Basic which was what I started with is
>> that line numbering thing. If you didn't go by 5,10,15 or even better
>> 10,20,30... then you could run out of lines and have to do a lot of
>> re-writing.
>
> A common problem with all mainframe languages in the day.  We would start
> with spacing the lines by 1000 (Using 8 digit sequence numbers).
>
Wasn't that an editor function?  It was a period of few full screen 
editors, so you needed line numbers to tell the editor which line to 
edit.  In that context, line numbers seemed relatively fine.  By 1975, 
certainly any book about BASIC would say "always leave a big gap between 
numbers".  It was only really once you got away from line editors that the 
use of line numbers seemed less important.

Microware OS-9 for the Motorola 6809 didn't need line numbers, but I can't 
remember how that worked.

   Michael

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#150860

FromBob Eager <news0005@eager.cx>
Date2015-08-31 18:17 +0000
Message-ID<d4jk21Fdu0iU8@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#150857
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:51:59 -0400, Michael Black wrote:

>  By 1975,
> certainly any book about BASIC would say "always leave a big gap between
> numbers".

I was taught that in January 1971, and I think it was in our text book 
(Kemeny & Kurtz, no less!)

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#150881

FromMichael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Date2015-08-31 16:04 -0400
Message-ID<alpine.LNX.2.02.1508311603490.3087@darkstar.example.org>
In reply to#150860
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Bob Eager wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:51:59 -0400, Michael Black wrote:
>
>>  By 1975,
>> certainly any book about BASIC would say "always leave a big gap between
>> numbers".
>
> I was taught that in January 1971, and I think it was in our text book
> (Kemeny & Kurtz, no less!)
>
I don't think I knew about BASIC in 1971.  I was making the point that at 
some point there were enough warnings that most people shouldn't have 
gotten stuck when they needed to add lines.

   Michael

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#150862

FromAhem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
Date2015-08-31 19:12 +0100
Message-ID<20150831191239.541d8c509d2f966f1e9d322b@eircom.net>
In reply to#150857
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:51:59 -0400
Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> 
> > "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:
> >>
> >> <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message
> >> news:8fc839ca-edbd-449c-b261-f19d24a37ef0@googlegroups.com...
> >> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 6:30:02 AM UTC-4, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
> >> wrote:
> >>> Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's - so
> >>> it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
> >>> FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.
> >>
> >> BASIC was developed in the early 1960s, long before C et al were
> >> developed
> >
> > For some value of "early 1960's (1964)" and "long before C" (BCPL was
> > 1966, B in 1969 and C in 1972)".
> >
> To be fair, until the later languages came along, living through that 
> period would be "long".  It's only once they arrive, and provide
> something different and sometimes even better that the period becomes
> less of a wait.

	That being said Algol had been around for quite some time when
BASIC appeared.

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#150864

From"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net>
Date2015-08-31 13:42 -0500
Message-ID<d4jlfqFasn7U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#150862
"Ahem A Rivet's Shot" wrote:

> That being said Algol had been around for quite some time when
> BASIC appeared.

The full name of common Algol was Algol-60. Algol-68 was a fancy-schmancy 
Algol that was, in comparison, kind of esoteric.  Algol-60 was more popular 
in Europe than in the USA. 

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#150866

FromPeter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
Date2015-08-31 18:53 +0000
Message-ID<1347227838462739888.234516peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#150862
Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:51:59 -0400
> Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> 
>>> "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:8fc839ca-edbd-449c-b261-f19d24a37ef0@googlegroups.com...
>>>> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 6:30:02 AM UTC-4, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's - so
>>>>> it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
>>>>> FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.
>>>> 
>>>> BASIC was developed in the early 1960s, long before C et al were
>>>> developed
>>> 
>>> For some value of "early 1960's (1964)" and "long before C" (BCPL was
>>> 1966, B in 1969 and C in 1972)".
>>> 
>> To be fair, until the later languages came along, living through that 
>> period would be "long".  It's only once they arrive, and provide
>> something different and sometimes even better that the period becomes
>> less of a wait.
> 
> 	That being said Algol had been around for quite some time when
> BASIC appeared.

FSVO "around".  I read a lot about it but never saw it until I did some
work on a Burroughs system.  I saw FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/I,  APL, and
assembler.

-- 
Pete

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#151949

FromAlan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca>
Date2015-09-28 12:21 -0400
Message-ID<mubpa4$lbg$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#150862
On 2015-08-31 2:12 PM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 	That being said Algol had been around for quite some time when
> BASIC appeared.

True.  However, when Dartmouth created Basic, the existing Algol
compilers were set up for card oriented batch processing. (compile,
link, run steps.).  Dartmouth used Basic to create a timeshared environment
that allowed a lot of people (I'm guessing around 60) to share
machines that had less than 1MIP CPU, at most 1 Meg of memory
and probably 1/3 gig of disk.

They got fast feedback on their typos, and quick results from simple programs
the students were writing.

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#152009

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2015-09-29 12:32 +0000
Message-ID<PM000520E2083A9903@aca43578.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#151949
Alan Bowler wrote:
> On 2015-08-31 2:12 PM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>     That being said Algol had been around for quite some time when
>> BASIC appeared.
>
> True.  However, when Dartmouth created Basic, the existing Algol
> compilers were set up for card oriented batch processing. (compile,
> link, run steps.).  Dartmouth used Basic to create a timeshared environment
> that allowed a lot of people (I'm guessing around 60) to share
> machines that had less than 1MIP CPU, at most 1 Meg of memory
> and probably 1/3 gig of disk.
>
> They got fast feedback on their typos, and quick results from simple
programs
> the students were writing.

KA-10, 48K, total disk space 20K 36-bit words.  IIRC, maximum users
was ~30.

/BAH

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#152103

FromRich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Date2015-09-30 15:34 -0400
Message-ID<mddmvw3ya3i.fsf@panix5.panix.com>
In reply to#152009
jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:

> Alan Bowler wrote:
>> On 2015-08-31 2:12 PM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>     That being said Algol had been around for quite some time when
>>> BASIC appeared.

>> True.  However, when Dartmouth created Basic, the existing Algol compilers
>> were set up for card oriented batch processing. (compile, link, run steps.).
>> Dartmouth used Basic to create a timeshared environment that allowed a lot
>> of people (I'm guessing around 60) to share machines that had less than 1MIP
>> CPU, at most 1 Meg of memory and probably 1/3 gig of disk.

>> They got fast feedback on their typos, and quick results from simple
>> programs the students were writing.

> KA-10, 48K, total disk space 20K 36-bit words.  IIRC, maximum users was ~30.

Dartmouth BASIC was created in the timeframe of the PDP-6, using a GE-235
(maximum memory = 16K of 20-bit words, general integer instructions take 18us
each).  Later, moved to GE-635, which was 10x faster (1.8us), 36 bit/word.

And it was a compiled language.

-- 
Rich Alderson                                   news@alderson.users.panix.com
    the russet leaves of an autumn oak/inspire once again the failed poet/
    to take up his pen/and essay to place his meagre words upon the page...

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#152124

FromJohn Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Date2015-10-01 01:38 +0000
Message-ID<mui2qr$10hg$1@miucha.iecc.com>
In reply to#152103
>Dartmouth BASIC was created in the timeframe of the PDP-6, using a GE-235
>(maximum memory = 16K of 20-bit words, general integer instructions take 18us
>each).  Later, moved to GE-635, which was 10x faster (1.8us), 36 bit/word.
>
>And it was a compiled language.

Right.  The system was more like a transaction processing system
(SAGE, SABRE, PARS) than a conventional time sharing system.  When
users were typing their programs with each program line starting with
a numeric line number, their input went to a front end Datanet 30 in
the 235 system, and a single monitor task on the 635.  When you said
RUN or some other command, only then did it sort the input lines into
order and pass them to the compiler.  The compilers on the 635
compiled into core, read in the runtime system to a fixed place in the
program memory, and ran the program.  The compilers were so fast that
there was no point in saving the object code, until finally the PL/I
compiler was sufficiently piggy to be worth writing a linker.

R's,
John

PS: I know this because my sister is married to the guy who wrote the
PL/I linker.

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#152161

Fromhankvc@blackhole.lostwells.org (Hank)
Date2015-10-01 16:27 +0000
Message-ID<mujmst$erh$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#152009
In article <PM000520E2083A9903@aca43578.ipt.aol.com>,
jmfbahciv  <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>Alan Bowler wrote:
>> On 2015-08-31 2:12 PM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>     That being said Algol had been around for quite some time when
>>> BASIC appeared.
>>
>> True.  However, when Dartmouth created Basic, the existing Algol
>> compilers were set up for card oriented batch processing. (compile,
>> link, run steps.).  Dartmouth used Basic to create a timeshared environment
>> that allowed a lot of people (I'm guessing around 60) to share
>> machines that had less than 1MIP CPU, at most 1 Meg of memory
>> and probably 1/3 gig of disk.
>>
>> They got fast feedback on their typos, and quick results from simple
>programs
>> the students were writing.
>
>KA-10, 48K, total disk space 20K 36-bit words.  IIRC, maximum users
>was ~30.
>
>/BAH

Dartmouth Basic?  PDP-10?  My recollection is that the Dartmouth people
developed Basic on a GE-235 with some fancy GE I/O devices in the early
1960's, when the only DEC computer product was the PDP-1.  DEC's next
machine was the PDP-4, followed by the PDP-5, around 1964 as I recall.

As I recall, Ben Gurley's last design for DEC was the PDP-3 progenitor
idea that was developed through the 60's into the PDP-6 and then the 10,
and the 10 didn't hit the market until something like 1968.  Kemeny&Co.
were up and running at Dartmouth long before that.  

Hank

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#152176

FromRich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Date2015-10-01 15:21 -0400
Message-ID<mddd1wycs45.fsf@panix5.panix.com>
In reply to#152161
hankvc@blackhole.lostwells.org (Hank) writes:

> In article <PM000520E2083A9903@aca43578.ipt.aol.com>,
> jmfbahciv  <See.above@aol.com> wrote:

>> Alan Bowler wrote:

>>> On 2015-08-31 2:12 PM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

>>>>     That being said Algol had been around for quite some time when
>>>> BASIC appeared.

>>> True.  However, when Dartmouth created Basic, the existing Algol
>>> compilers were set up for card oriented batch processing. (compile,
>>> link, run steps.).  Dartmouth used Basic to create a timeshared environment
>>> that allowed a lot of people (I'm guessing around 60) to share
>>> machines that had less than 1MIP CPU, at most 1 Meg of memory
>>> and probably 1/3 gig of disk.

>>> They got fast feedback on their typos, and quick results from simple
>>> programs the students were writing.

>> KA-10, 48K, total disk space 20K 36-bit words.  IIRC, maximum users
>> was ~30.

> Dartmouth Basic?  PDP-10?  My recollection is that the Dartmouth people
> developed Basic on a GE-235 with some fancy GE I/O devices in the early
> 1960's, when the only DEC computer product was the PDP-1.  DEC's next
> machine was the PDP-4, followed by the PDP-5, around 1964 as I recall.

Already commented on the GE-235.  Want to clear up the DEC history.

PDP-4 came out in 1962, and the PDP-5 in 1963.

> As I recall, Ben Gurley's last design for DEC was the PDP-3 progenitor
> idea that was developed through the 60's into the PDP-6 and then the 10,
> and the 10 didn't hit the market until something like 1968.  Kemeny&Co.
> were up and running at Dartmouth long before that.  

The PDP-6 came out in 1964, about the time that Dartmouth BASIC was created,
but it was unrelated to the PDP-3, a paper design that was essentially a
stretched PDP-1 (36 bits instead of 18, but otherwise similar).  The PDP-10
(KA-10 processor) reimplemented and augmented the PDP-6 architecture using the
FlipChip(TM) technology invented for the PDP-7 (also 1964).

-- 
Rich Alderson                                   news@alderson.users.panix.com
    the russet leaves of an autumn oak/inspire once again the failed poet/
    to take up his pen/and essay to place his meagre words upon the page...

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#152191

Fromrpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date2015-10-02 03:34 +0000
Message-ID<560dfb57$0$1712$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>
In reply to#152176
Rich Alderson  <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
+---------------
| The PDP-10 (KA-10 processor) reimplemented and augmented
| the PDP-6 architecture using the FlipChip(TM) technology
| invented for the PDP-7 (also 1964).
+---------------

To this day, the KA-10 CPU remains for me the most elegant
example of a *large* yet practical variable-clock-speed
one-hot[1] state machine, with "one-hot" redefined to mean
not which shift register flip-flop contains a "1" but rather
in which delay line the clock pulse is currently hiding!  ;-}

[And during a memory access, the "clock pulse" hides inside
the memory module! Which is why it was so easy to mix several
different speeds of main memory on a KA10...]

In contrast, the PDP-8 CPU's sequencer is an almost pure
fixed-clock-speed one-hot shift-register state machine[2]
(with some optional branching, to be sure).

And then there was CHARTWARE, but that's another story...  ;-}


-Rob

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hot

[2] Well, IIRC, in some instantiations it was actually a
    "two-hot", but that's a level of detail into which we
    need not delve further.  ;-}

-----
Rob Warnock		<rpw3@rpw3.org>
627 26th Avenue		<http://rpw3.org/>
San Mateo, CA 94403

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#152201

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2015-10-02 13:11 +0000
Message-ID<PM0005211F1C5AAB2F@aca40561.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#152191
Rob Warnock wrote:
> Rich Alderson  <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
> +---------------
> | The PDP-10 (KA-10 processor) reimplemented and augmented
> | the PDP-6 architecture using the FlipChip(TM) technology
> | invented for the PDP-7 (also 1964).
> +---------------
>
> To this day, the KA-10 CPU remains for me the most elegant
> example of a *large* yet practical variable-clock-speed
> one-hot[1] state machine, with "one-hot" redefined to mean
> not which shift register flip-flop contains a "1" but rather
> in which delay line the clock pulse is currently hiding!  ;-}
>
> [And during a memory access, the "clock pulse" hides inside
> the memory module! Which is why it was so easy to mix several
> different speeds of main memory on a KA10...]
>
> In contrast, the PDP-8 CPU's sequencer is an almost pure
> fixed-clock-speed one-hot shift-register state machine[2]
> (with some optional branching, to be sure).
>
> And then there was CHARTWARE, but that's another story...  ;-}
>
>
> -Rob
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hot
>
> [2] Well, IIRC, in some instantiations it was actually a
>     "two-hot", but that's a level of detail into which we
>     need not delve further.  ;-}


I liked the KA, too.  It was fun to debug monitors and
apps on it.  I liked the console; it was like playing
the piano.  I debugged most of my USAGE project code
on System 2 which had been moved to a lonely corner
of the hardware engineering lab after the LCG KA
system had been dismantled.

/BAH

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#152202

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2015-10-02 13:11 +0000
Message-ID<PM0005211F0A154CE4@aca40561.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#152161
Hank wrote:
> In article <PM000520E2083A9903@aca43578.ipt.aol.com>,
> jmfbahciv  <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>>Alan Bowler wrote:
>>> On 2015-08-31 2:12 PM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>>     That being said Algol had been around for quite some time when
>>>> BASIC appeared.
>>>
>>> True.  However, when Dartmouth created Basic, the existing Algol
>>> compilers were set up for card oriented batch processing. (compile,
>>> link, run steps.).  Dartmouth used Basic to create a timeshared
environment
>>> that allowed a lot of people (I'm guessing around 60) to share
>>> machines that had less than 1MIP CPU, at most 1 Meg of memory
>>> and probably 1/3 gig of disk.
>>>
>>> They got fast feedback on their typos, and quick results from simple
>>programs
>>> the students were writing.
>>
>>KA-10, 48K, total disk space 20K 36-bit words.  IIRC, maximum users
>>was ~30.
>>
>>/BAH
>
> Dartmouth Basic?  PDP-10?

Yup.  We bought BASIC in Fall of 1970 or Winter of 1971.  The intro
computer language class was then changed from FORTRAN to BASIC.

> My recollection is that the Dartmouth people
> developed Basic on a GE-235 with some fancy GE I/O devices in the early
> 1960's, when the only DEC computer product was the PDP-1.  DEC's next
> machine was the PDP-4, followed by the PDP-5, around 1964 as I recall.
>
> As I recall, Ben Gurley's last design for DEC was the PDP-3 progenitor
> idea that was developed through the 60's into the PDP-6 and then the 10,
> and the 10 didn't hit the market until something like 1968.  Kemeny&Co.
> were up and running at Dartmouth long before that.

I was trying to give a data point for timesharing.  Was the GE timesharing?
From the description posted yesterday, it didn't sound like a timesharing
monitor.

/BAH

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#152205

Fromhancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Date2015-10-02 07:32 -0700
Message-ID<f624ded4-5083-4210-863d-1487046b17d0@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#152202
On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 9:10:15 AM UTC-4, jmfbahciv wrote:

> I was trying to give a data point for timesharing.  Was the GE timesharing?
> From the description posted yesterday, it didn't sound like a timesharing
> monitor.

"Timesharing" was a big deal in the early 1960s.  Computers were enormously expensive, and the idea was to build a big one and 'share' it among many users via terminals.  Exactly how this would work, both in terms of the user interface and 'under the hood', still required a lot of research.  

These issues entered into the development of S/360 architecture and is covered in the S/360 history.  While the architecture allowed for multi-programming with good storage protection, IBM chose not to include DAT--dynamic address translations--for which it got criticzed.  IBM then rushed timesharing development at a time when its resources were already badly strained.

While there were real-time computers in production service in the 1960s, running _specific_ applications, such as SAGE or SABRE, was different than serving disparate users and applications.  Much more horsepower and sophistication was required.

One of the key discoveries of that era was that while it wasn't too hard to set up timesharing for a _small_ group of users, it was very difficult to scale it up.  Some early timesharing developers ran into difficult roadblocks in trying to enlarge their systems (see the IBM S/360 history for details).

C&A magazine (on bitsavers) has numerous articles on timesharing published throughout the 1960s.  But it seems (at least to me) that the articles focus on the technical side, such as polling, memory space, addressing, and such, and not much on the user interface.  More significantly, there isn't much on what, and how, the end user would actually _accomplish_ via the timesharing systems envisioned back then.  A 10-char/sec Teletype would be cumbersome to print out a payroll, invoices, or accounting ledger for any decent sized business.

However, they did forsee a lot of what ordinary consumers now do on the Internet, such as ordering stuff (from a pre-printed hard copy catalog), making travel reservations, and doing school work.  The only difference was back then the 'utility computer' would be very large and centralized, as opposed to today's decentralized servers.

As mentioned, early on, Western Union Telegraph Co. saw itself as a carrier connecting terminals with computers and computers to computers.  A few years later, as it obtained computers, it considered providing services itself, to the extent the regulators would allow.  Back then, W/U was very tightly regulated, down to the hours and locations of its public offices, and terminals installed on customer sites.


General Electric offered a timesharing service.  I think IBM might have too ("Call/360").  

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#152209

FromRich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Date2015-10-02 13:46 -0400
Message-ID<mdd8u7lkvtv.fsf@panix5.panix.com>
In reply to#152202
jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:

> I was trying to give a data point for timesharing.  Was the GE timesharing?
> From the description posted yesterday, it didn't sound like a timesharing
> monitor.

The GE was indeed a timesharing system.  It just didn't use an
interrupt-on-each-character user interface model in the CPU.  (That was handled
in the Datanet-30 (think 680i on a KA-10), which then transmitted lines of code
to the CPU.)

In fact, our favorite PDP-10 programmers got their first exposure to BASIC via
a Teletype which dialed into the General Electric Information System (GEIS), a
nationwide timesharing service built around GE-635 systems offering BASIC,
FORTRAN, and assorted applications.  It was only because a coterie of the boys
at the Lakeside School (especially a certain well-known pair) ran out the
year's budget in the first month that the search for a cheaper alternative led
to Computer Center Corporation, where Slug Russell and Dick Gruen were systems
programmers.

-- 
Rich Alderson                                   news@alderson.users.panix.com
    the russet leaves of an autumn oak/inspire once again the failed poet/
    to take up his pen/and essay to place his meagre words upon the page...

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#152213

Fromhancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Date2015-10-02 13:09 -0700
Message-ID<3e732072-057d-4fcd-8773-4c526df03667@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#152209
On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 1:46:06 PM UTC-4, Rich Alderson wrote:

> In fact, our favorite PDP-10 programmers got their first exposure to BASIC via
> a Teletype which dialed into the General Electric Information System (GEIS), a
> nationwide timesharing service built around GE-635 systems offering BASIC,
> FORTRAN, and assorted applications.  It was only because a coterie of the boys
> at the Lakeside School (especially a certain well-known pair) ran out the
> year's budget in the first month that the search for a cheaper alternative led
> to Computer Center Corporation, where Slug Russell and Dick Gruen were systems
> programmers.

Our school district initially used GE Timesharing.  Then they switched to an IBM 1130, which was very slow, then an HP 2000, which was neat.

A former employer used GE Timesharing for an analysis application.  (Today, it probably could be done on a spreadsheet instead of BASIC).  

I'd love to know the revenue/expense picture of GE's Timesharing, as well as the smaller companies.   

For commercial business customers, I wonder how the cost/value ratio was, that is, the cost of running applications (and writing them, if need be) vs. the value obtained from computerization.  As mentioned, a Teletype was certainly not an optimum I/O device.  However, for business number crunching, such as present-value, mortgages, financial analysis, statistics, BASIC could be very helpful.

On the other hand, for science and engineering users, an easily written BASIC program offered six digit accuracy and fast answers to lots of problems.

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#152353

FromAlan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca>
Date2015-10-06 19:44 -0400
Message-ID<mv1m8o$tj4$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#152209
On 2015-10-02 1:46 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>
>> I was trying to give a data point for timesharing.  Was the GE timesharing?
>>  From the description posted yesterday, it didn't sound like a timesharing
>> monitor.
>
> The GE was indeed a timesharing system.  It just didn't use an
> interrupt-on-each-character user interface model in the CPU.  (That was handled
> in the Datanet-30 (think 680i on a KA-10), which then transmitted lines of code
> to the CPU.)
>
> In fact, our favorite PDP-10 programmers got their first exposure to BASIC via
> a Teletype which dialed into the General Electric Information System (GEIS), a
> nationwide timesharing service built around GE-635 systems offering BASIC,
> FORTRAN, and assorted applications.  It was only because a coterie of the boys
> at the Lakeside School (especially a certain well-known pair) ran out the
> year's budget in the first month that the search for a cheaper alternative led
> to Computer Center Corporation, where Slug Russell and Dick Gruen were systems
> programmers.

The GE-635 and descendant machines have a fairly flexible architecture
that has supported a number of operating systems all of which support(ed)
timesharing.  Dartmouth TimeSharing System (DTSS), GCOS,
MarkIII timesharing (aka GEIS), and CP-6.
Multics evolved on a modification of the addressing model GE-645
(later DPS8-M).

The time sharing on the first 3 (DTSS, GCOS and MarkIII) had a related
look and feel since they evolved from Dartmouth's Basic.
However, the underlying operating systems eventually evolved quite
differently.

MarkIII developed a very different interprocess communication
model that managed to support behind the scenes transition of
running applications between physical hardware systems.  The GENIE
system some of you might remember ran on top of MarkIII.

GCOS is in some ways primarily a batch system (cards, spooled
print output etc.)   Time sharing was implemented with a privileged
program that swapped users in and out of its own memory space.

The hardware guys that did the Multics paging/segmentation/privilege design
eventually concluded that the model was wrong and redesigned it,
as a capability architecture.  DTSS, GCOS and MarkIII made the
transition to the new architecture, Multics didn't and withered on the vine.
CP-6 was born after the new architure and its user look/feel was modelled
on that of Xerox's CP-V for the Sigma-6 Sigma-9 systems.

Today only GCOS still exists commercially.  Timesharing is now implemented
by up to 4 privileged processes, and they have a more elaborate method
of handing out memory, but a single user program is still limited
to a single segment of up to 1 megabyte.   There is a partially
implemented replacement that uses one process per user,
and allows access to the full abilities of the hardware,
but its use limited to a few special applications.

Aside, Xerox's CP-V (Control Program 5) was so named because it was
intended to give good support for five computer uses.
I can think of 4: batch, timesharing, tranaction processing, and real-time.
Does anyone recall what number 5 was?

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#150872

Fromscott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Date2015-08-31 19:10 +0000
Message-ID<ZE1Fx.9509$4m.9072@fx29.iad>
In reply to#150857
Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
>On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Scott Lurndal wrote:

>>>    I know the thing I dislike about Basic which was what I started with is
>>> that line numbering thing. If you didn't go by 5,10,15 or even better
>>> 10,20,30... then you could run out of lines and have to do a lot of
>>> re-writing.
>>
>> A common problem with all mainframe languages in the day.  We would start
>> with spacing the lines by 1000 (Using 8 digit sequence numbers).
>>
>Wasn't that an editor function?  It was a period of few full screen 

No, it was so if you dropped the source deck for the application,
you could run it through a card-sorter to get it back in order :-)

It was also to handle patching (master source + patches merged in
by sequence number) which was the pre-SCCS way of doing things.

The burroughs mainframes (like the IBM mainframes) used block-mode
terminals, so all editing was full-screen (sort of) and CANDE had
a seq command that would prepopulate the sequence number column with
sequence numbers (the location of the column varied by source language,
so the editor files were tagged with the source language when created).

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