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: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:24:33 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <50cec39d-ebcd-d9fd-d288-64af77f90bc2@example.net> <04b08dd5-cce3-58d0-39c4-a3fdc28defb2@example.net> <9f9f1b3b-7142-749e-4761-aed0b29fa5bb@example.net> <390c2666-2e52-ffa0-e392-0128aca658d9@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="770978"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63163 On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 09:25:53 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> On 2024-12-27, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:41:29 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: >>> >>>> Read up on the Italian and Greek city-state eras. >>>> The "town over the hill" was always attacking. >>> >>> Thucydides got an Amazon best seller out of it. If the bible can be >>> believed the tribal god was big on genocide when somebody else was >>> living on the land he gave you. That hasn't changed a bit. >> >> I once set myself a project of reading the Bible end to end, rather than >> depending on other people's summaries. I bogged down around I Kings - >> all that violence was getting too depressing. > > I don't know if I ever made it that far. Ecclesiasticus (not Ecclesiastes) > isn't too bad; it reads like Hesiod or the Havamal. The first time I made I agree! And also proverbs is quite similar to Havamal as well. > it through the NT was 'Good News for Modern Man'. It was more or less in > English and about all I had to read at the time. > > As for the rest I'm surprised it preserved. Joseph's brothers sell him as > a slave. He wheedles his way to second in command in Egypt and sets up a > scheme to store all the confiscated grain in the good years. He also > invites all his friends and relatives to share in the good times. > > Bad times come and he sells the grain back to the starving farmers, taking > all their land. The Egyptians get pissed off so Joe and his tribe call > down some plagues, steal everything that isn't nailed down, and beat feet. > > Fine, upstanding story... >