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Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ?

From John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ?
Date 2020-12-12 02:24 +0000
Organization Taughannock Networks
Message-ID <rr19l8$1utl$2@gal.iecc.com> (permalink)
References <rql47u$13v$1@dont-email.me> <rqutjc$sjs$1@dont-email.me> <rqvm7k$q2u$1@dont-email.me> <1515267408.629425216.962528.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>

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In article <1515267408.629425216.962528.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> you write:
>gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On 11/12/2020 04:46, Dave Garland wrote:
>>> 
>>> Oh hell, my 4 year old Android phone is a more powerful computer than
>>> the mainframe (an IBM1620) that my college had. Though the blinkenlights
>>> are much inferior.
>> 
>> Went up to Essex Uni in 1969 and their mainframe
>> was in the ICL1900 series.
>> 
>> When I left in 1972 it was a PDP10.
>> 
>> I wonder what they have now, nearly 50 years on?

A bunch of Windows and Linux boxes, like everyone else:

https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/computer-science-and-electronic-engineering/facilities

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An Xmyth stack overflow ? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-07 11:38 +0000
  Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-07 11:41 +0000
    Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-12-08 15:08 +0000
      Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-12-10 17:52 +0000
        Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2020-12-10 22:46 -0600
          Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-12-11 01:47 -0400
            Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-12-11 06:54 +0000
              Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-12-11 09:46 +0000
            Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-12-11 18:13 +0000
              Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2020-12-11 11:29 -0800
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-12-12 01:37 +0000
                Re: IBM 1620 and its successors, not An Xmyth stack overflow ? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-12-12 02:22 +0000
                Re: IBM 1620 and its successors, not An Xmyth stack overflow ? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-12 06:58 -0700
                Re: 360/44, was IBM 1620 and its successors, not An Xmyth stack overflow ? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-12-12 19:16 +0000
                Re: 360/44, was IBM 1620 and its successors, not An Xmyth stack overflow ? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-12 19:57 -0700
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-11 21:44 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2020-12-11 23:11 -0600
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-12 06:58 -0700
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 09:43 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 10:31 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-12-12 17:40 +0000
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-12-12 19:28 +0000
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 13:12 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 13:28 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 17:35 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 17:49 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 19:31 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 19:54 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 20:08 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-12 19:58 -0700
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 22:13 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 23:07 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 23:28 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-12-14 19:13 +0000
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 23:04 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-12 19:57 -0700
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-12-13 16:23 +0000
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-13 11:47 -0500
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-12-13 19:18 +0000
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-13 15:11 -0700
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? cb@elaine.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) - 2020-12-13 23:28 +0000
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-12-13 23:23 +0000
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-12-13 09:05 +0000
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-12 19:57 -0700
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2020-12-13 11:22 -0600
                Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-12-12 01:55 -0400
          Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-11 11:46 +0000
            Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-11 17:22 -0700
              Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-12-12 02:24 +0000
              Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-12-12 10:16 +0000
      Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-12-10 16:28 -0400
  Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2020-12-08 18:08 +0000
    Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-12-08 18:53 +0000
      Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-08 21:01 +0000
        Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-12-08 22:28 +0000
          Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-12-09 01:12 +0000
            Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-09 11:43 +0000
        Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2020-12-08 20:57 -0600

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