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: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:07:00 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <56b4e5a2-801a-501f-3043-a1e2fca8ea3e@example.net> References: <5f26b99d-cefb-9b85-1296-0be9aff25a7d@example.net> <50cec39d-ebcd-d9fd-d288-64af77f90bc2@example.net> <04b08dd5-cce3-58d0-39c4-a3fdc28defb2@example.net> <9f9f1b3b-7142-749e-4761-aed0b29fa5bb@example.net> <278925ea-c4c0-6c76-a532-c6f150869a4f@example.net> <237ce231-5714-88b4-c52a-ffa54efdcd33@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1166517"; 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:63342 On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:20:42 +0100, D wrote: > >> That was high fashion for a time! There were some swedish authors as >> well who played that game, traving the swede back to ancient greek >> times. No one likes to write about tracing all the way back to africa >> though. > > When you try to unravel the histories you realize there was a lot of > cribbing going on with pure fiction to fill in the blanks. Then there are > the dead ends like the assumption Jordanes copied Cassiodorus although > there are no texts by Cassiodorus. According to him the Goths took a shot > at Troy after the Trojan Wars. > > The twist is he might have been right about the Geats if you look at > modern DNA patterns. The thought is I-M253 arose in Scandinavia and spread > out from there. Did they becomes Goths? > > It's hard to separate the fly shit from the pepper. > > Funny thing about tracing genealogies back to Africa. The Dark Continent > doesn't get much love outside of the Marvel universe. Been to any good > African restaurants lately? This is the truth! In Stockholm there was one Ethiopian restaurant. I went there once, and it was ok, but nothing spectacular. This must have been about 20 years ago or so. Then it closed, and a new one has opened close to my father, but it never seems to be full. If I remember correctly it kind of tasted like very spicy indian food with weird flat bread that I didn't like.