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: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:34:51 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <8a58cd46-6477-7b17-06a0-692f3ea842fe@example.net> References: <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> <080b1cff-52cf-c9cb-6aa0-dc2c4c73fff3@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3846886"; 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:62808 On Fri, 20 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:35:40 +0100, D wrote: > >> Many, on my mothers side of the family, have lived in the US for at >> least a year or two, but all of them (me included) eventually came back >> to where we came from. > > They were Norwegians but I like to compare Rolvaag with Hamsun. Rolvaag > wrote 'Giants in the Earth' about the Norwegians in the Dakotas in the > 1870s. He had emigrated and stayed in the US. You inspired me, and I added Giants in the earth to my christmas wishlist this year. I think it is/was very difficult to get hold of, but let's see what santa brings this year! > Hamsun spent a few years in America in the 1880s but went back. 'Hunger' > and some of his early works were a little strange but 'Growth of the Soil' > is set in rural Norway. There are many parallels to trying to make a life > in rural Dakota. > > > 'Giants in the Earth' follows Per Hansa and his wife, Beret. Per really > wants to make a new life in America; Beret really wants to go home. She > eventually goes more or less insane. I don't know how well she would have > done in rural Norway either. Sounds like Mobergs utvandrarna where the woman wants to go home, and the man wants to stay. Kind of weird that my wife now wants to move, and I want to stay. ;) On the other hand, since there will be surveillanec cameras all over our apartment complex, I think that's a sign from god that we should move. ;) Hence my sudden interest in plots and a fortress of solitude.