Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 2 Mar 2025 08:19:52 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <1976765442.762208809.808387.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20250225130315.00004e34@gmail.com> <1924764604.762215659.468999.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <87mse5zyn8.fsf@eder.anydns.info> <20250228132017.00005dbb@gmail.com> <20250228140740.00007b4b@gmail.com> <67c2cfbf$0$16850$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net gM1wrWO2IXQuD6IcMMLlSQa+hQPI55mgAbB5eZhnHuSHH0BScN Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y5wbb8TV5GLH2RM+w1A/gaXw1gA= sha256:8WdyTElp6ntL5UCKgtpsELr/QN4NhYMyqoJiSbQy1o8= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:65937 On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 00:08:04 -0500, c186282 wrote: > When American were used to 350 cubic inch engines in their cars, > using 'CCs' generated bigger numbers and those tended to impress even > though a lot of those engines were of much smaller displacement. > Fooled enough of the people enough of the time. That worked backwards when the displacement was given in liters. 428 ci sounds a lot better than 7 L. They seemed to have died down but for a while the market was flooded with cheap Chinese knockoffs of Vespas. One proudly advertised itself as having 150 cc (of oil in the crankcase). The engine was 49 cc on a good day. My first bike was a '55 FLH I bought at a police auction. When I called my friendly insurance man he asked what the displacement was and I said 74. "CCs?" he asked. I should have lied. The 1200 cc Sportster really is 1200; 73.35 doesn't roll of the tongue well.