Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 20 Dec 2024 18:59:07 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: 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> <923a3c06-b18b-a50a-cb09-5e38dcfe669c@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5cRg6Gl3MGKH1OjAPKHXfAhMoskaGIwIFQxSVKwoCnFvXlrhek Cancel-Lock: sha1:y08HWjrjR9xWicnfia0gkWK26Ic= sha256:JORmZKQvgE51zwrTw7wGRNdDGoCVgCzPMzfYKNUaGg8= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62794 On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:37:41 +0100, D wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:06:04 +0100, D wrote: >> >> >>> It's the ponytail. Always the ponytail. >> >> This town is overflowing with old men with beards and ponytails. I >> don't know how many times an utter stranger has come up and started a >> conversation assuming they knew me. We all look the same. > > Hmm, on second though, does that mean that the entire town is full of > honorable and dignified Unix-men? Possibly. There was an attempt to start a Linux users group about 15 years ago but it fizzled out. Sort of like c.o.l.m it didn't attract anybody but Linux users and since we were all experienced Linux users what was there to talk about? There were a presentations but they tended to be esoterica that didn't interest anybody but the person who brought the topic up.