Return-Path: Delivery-Date: Received: from leopard.cs.byu.edu (no rfc931) by swan.cl.cam.ac.uk with SMTP (PP-6.5) outside ac.uk; Thu, 9 Dec 1993 16:13:07 +0000 Received: by leopard.cs.byu.edu (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA26643; Thu, 9 Dec 1993 09:04:30 -0700 Sender: info-hol-request@leopard.cs.byu.edu Errors-To: info-hol-request@leopard.cs.byu.edu Precedence: bulk Received: from dworshak.cs.uidaho.edu by leopard.cs.byu.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA26639; Thu, 9 Dec 1993 09:04:29 -0700 Received: from ganymede.inmos.co.uk by dworshak.cs.uidaho.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA03187; Thu, 9 Dec 1993 08:01:04 -0800 Received: from frogland.inmos.co.uk by ganymede.inmos.co.uk; Thu, 9 Dec 1993 16:00:56 GMT From: David Shepherd Message-Id: <23502.9312091600@frogland.inmos.co.uk> Subject: Re: underscore To: info-hol@cs.uidaho.edu (info-hol mailing list) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 16:00:02 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <"swan.cl.cam.:167070:931209151435"@cl.cam.ac.uk> from "John Harrison" at Dec 9, 93 03:14:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL20] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 959 John Harrison has said: > "When I were a lad we 'ad eight character alphanumeric monocase, and we > were grateful. Nowt wrong with it, and anyone says there is is nobbut a > big girl's blouse." You 'ad eight characters, you were lucky. I remember using Atom Basic where you had 26 1 character variables + you had to do manage your own symbol table for assembly inserts. (Those were the days when code compacting meant reducing your program from the 8k RAM that you had on an Acorn system 3 machine used for development to the 6k RAM you had on an Atom) Aye, and I also remember before that 'aving to boot computer at school using front panel switches and paper tape. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- david shepherd: des@inmos.co.uk tel: 0454-616616 x 625 inmos ltd, 1000 aztec west, almondsbury, bristol, bs12 4sq "you might think that --- I couldn't possibly comment"