Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:06:59 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <080b1cff-52cf-c9cb-6aa0-dc2c4c73fff3@example.net> References: <0cabca8e-52bc-bd20-04b3-b77282e575bc@example.net> <8e38b627-a937-cfde-ddad-070f49d4fc94@example.net> <45923010-96be-72d0-9ccc-9a43f25f35c4@example.net> <3Nqcncx9-a5sKsL6nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@earthlink.com> <305d5af9-8a24-b375-323e-c250bdc27e94@example.net> <308f34aa-6ce1-f0d0-a31d-7ff5d389237a@example.net> <8687e191-71e3-4458-1628-a30ade9bb12a@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3660160"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62729 On Thu, 19 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:35:57 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 19/12/2024 15:01, D wrote: >>> Manchester was nice, but it was raining all the time. >> >> "Canada is all right, just not for the *whole* weekend" :-) >> >> Stuff Manchester, It always rains. >> Do do Ireland and Wales, but at leasts they have nice greenery to look >> at. > > People in the US of Irish descent have some compulsion to return to the > 'Auld Sod'. After a friend returned I asked him how it was. 'Green! It > should be green. It rains all the fucking time!' > > I can only speculate why my people left Germany. There was no family lore > about the old country and no one had an interest in returning. That's not > to say they weren't proud of their ethnicity. > Hmm... was it around 1940:ish? ;)