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: 27 Dec 2024 19:14:06 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <072d1a3f-8bf5-035f-b7c0-e6adc84a8673@example.net> <10366897-b37e-5fee-3895-1524008f8b3b@example.net> <4b2cnTX5lsAz0Pf6nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <9768b36e-becf-45b5-9730-77fc3396ba60@example.net> <35fa6d66-0cd3-db6e-a34c-6625712373f2@example.net> <2e1d4083-8bb5-d852-87e2-466b8971f071@example.net> <573768ec-4a10-ddde-774e-9d378baac394@example.net> <237cf371-700e-be30-7ec8-df825e179db2@example.net> <8ea4721d-c8e7-600d-4eab-8a5f473a8a79@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net svh/xyrEuQw2AW20EkYDOQghsH8bq38eMlDPoZaAs+8SpbDf0G Cancel-Lock: sha1:3aYIPcumPlcc4tRZ0lnJVW/CPoE= sha256:QaAuIywTVs4IaZ4MknfhTqUD50fLbGCfOEUka9wd0V4= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63155 On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:21:30 +0100, D wrote: > Wow! What did your doctor say? My fathers doctor told him to cut down on > meat, and he responded that that will never happen. We weren't big on doctors. In that era most people saw a doctor when there was something obviously wrong that you couldn't fix yourself. Most people didn't have medical insurance or a plan at work. otoh, you could pay for a office visit or house call out of pocket without mortgaging the farm. You have to remember even Medicare was started in '65. Health insurance and the health industry have fed on each other. Since he died at work my father was autopsied. He had arteriosclerosis, Type 2 diabetes, and a few other problems. As far as he was concerned he was as healthy as a horse.