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Re: Firefox alternatives?

From "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Firefox alternatives?
Date 2024-12-12 19:50 +0100
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On Thursday 12 December 2024 03:18:49 am Bret Busby wrote:
> > The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400 
> > 6-bit characters, not bytes, 
> 
> Wasn't that data type named EBCDIC, or something like that?
 
No,  that was an 8-bit code...


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Re: Firefox alternatives? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-12-12 01:10 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-12-12 01:40 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-12-12 01:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? eben@gmx.us - 2024-12-12 02:00 +0100
      1401, was Re: Firefox alternatives? "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2024-12-12 02:40 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-12 09:20 +0100
        Re: Firefox alternatives? jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-12-12 10:00 +0100
        Re: Firefox alternatives? "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2024-12-12 19:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbi.73@letterboxes.org> - 2024-12-12 13:10 +0100
        Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-12 13:20 +0100
          Re: Firefox alternatives? "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbi.73@letterboxes.org> - 2024-12-12 14:10 +0100

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