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| Re: What's different, was Why did Dennis Ritchie write that UNIX was a modern implementation of CTSS? [message #415486 is a reply to message #414154] |
Sun, 24 July 2022 12:57   |
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Originally posted by: Bud Frede
Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
> Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> writes:
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>> On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:24:18 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc wrote:
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>>> Why do little-endian CPUs even exist?
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>> I blame eggs. ;-)
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> A swift response!
Back when I was a child, deep in the past, and had an egg every morning
for breakfast that was served to me in an egg cup, I was always taught
big end up.
A very memorable egg experience was when I was in 3rd grade and the
teacher did an experiment with some paper, a glass milk bottle, and a
hard-boiled egg. She put the paper inside the bottle, lit it, and then
set the egg on top of the open neck of the bottle. It sat there for a
few moments and then violently disintegrated, spewing egg everywhere and
leaving a lot of pieces inside the bottle as well. I'm not sure how much
I understood of what happened at the time, but I was very impressed with
the amount of mess that it made.
I do feel sorry for the janitor that had to clean up that day though.
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| Re: What's different, was Why did Dennis Ritchie write that UNIX was a modern implementation of CTSS? [message #415487 is a reply to message #415486] |
Sun, 24 July 2022 14:13 |
D.J.
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2022 12:57:29 -0400, Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com>
wrote:
> Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
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>> Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> writes:
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>>> On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:24:18 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc wrote:
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>>>> Why do little-endian CPUs even exist?
>>>
>>> I blame eggs. ;-)
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>> A swift response!
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> Back when I was a child, deep in the past, and had an egg every morning
> for breakfast that was served to me in an egg cup, I was always taught
> big end up.
>
> A very memorable egg experience was when I was in 3rd grade and the
> teacher did an experiment with some paper, a glass milk bottle, and a
> hard-boiled egg. She put the paper inside the bottle, lit it, and then
> set the egg on top of the open neck of the bottle. It sat there for a
> few moments and then violently disintegrated, spewing egg everywhere and
> leaving a lot of pieces inside the bottle as well. I'm not sure how much
> I understood of what happened at the time, but I was very impressed with
> the amount of mess that it made.
>
> I do feel sorry for the janitor that had to clean up that day though.
Ah, it was supposed to create a vacuum, then the egg would go into the
bottle. I remember our teacher peeling the egg shell off before the
experiment.
--
Jim
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| Re: What's different, was Why did Dennis Ritchie write that UNIX was a modern implementation of CTSS? [message #415492 is a reply to message #415487] |
Sun, 24 July 2022 16:21 |
Harry Vaderchi
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2022 13:13:43 -0500
D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2022 12:57:29 -0400, Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com>
> wrote:
>> Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
>>
>>> Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:24:18 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Why do little-endian CPUs even exist?
>>>>
>>>> I blame eggs. ;-)
>>>
>>> A swift response!
>>
>> Back when I was a child, deep in the past, and had an egg every morning
>> for breakfast that was served to me in an egg cup, I was always taught
>> big end up.
>>
>> A very memorable egg experience was when I was in 3rd grade and the
>> teacher did an experiment with some paper, a glass milk bottle, and a
>> hard-boiled egg. She put the paper inside the bottle, lit it, and then
>> set the egg on top of the open neck of the bottle. It sat there for a
>> few moments and then violently disintegrated, spewing egg everywhere and
>> leaving a lot of pieces inside the bottle as well. I'm not sure how much
>> I understood of what happened at the time, but I was very impressed with
>> the amount of mess that it made.
Soak the egg(shell) in vinegar first! also use the egg unboiled. Maybe
this was a counter-demonstration.
>>
>> I do feel sorry for the janitor that had to clean up that day though.
>
> Ah, it was supposed to create a vacuum, then the egg would go into the
> bottle. I remember our teacher peeling the egg shell off before the
> experiment.
--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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| Re: What's different, was Why did Dennis Ritchie write that UNIX was a modern implementation of CTSS? [message #415494 is a reply to message #415489] |
Sun, 24 July 2022 16:58 |
D.J.
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2022 19:57:02 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
<steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2022 13:13:43 -0500
> D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Ah, it was supposed to create a vacuum, then the egg would go into the
>> bottle. I remember our teacher peeling the egg shell off before the
>> experiment.
>
> We never did it at fpubby but ISTR it being done on that very
> excellent kiddies prog "How". The egg is supposed to arrive inside the
> bockle intact despite not fitting through the neck.
>
> I wonder if Bud's teacher used a bockle with too small a neck, that
> would be messy I goove.
That too small neck thought came to me to. I remember the teacher
using a milk bottle, not a soda pop bottle.
--
Jim
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