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Article #646Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Chad Irby
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 04:10
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 04:10
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Joe Sloan (jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu) wrote: : You have made the naive assumption that Dan meant "orders" in base 10. : Using base 2, a 4-fold advantage would qualify as "orders of magnitude"... : Since Dan was discussing computers, you should have realized that base 2 : is assumed; The binary numbering system is used universally in computing... You left out the smileys- someone might actually think you're serious about this... -- Chad Irby / My greatest fear: that future generations will, cirby@gate.net / for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.gate.net!not-for-mail From: cirby@news.gate.net (Chad Irby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?] Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Date: 7 Aug 1995 00:10:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4043nq$1q2j@hopi.gate.net> References: <403nll$ijj@seminole.gate.net> <404042$bum@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hopi.gate.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]