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Article #664Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Lawson English
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 11:04
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 11:04
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Chad Irby (cirby@news.gate.net) wrote:
: 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...
You mean he's not?
<v i r t u a l s m i l e y>
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: 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.primenet.com!english From: english@primenet.com (Lawson English) 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?] Date: 7 Aug 1995 11:04:12 GMT Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010 Message-ID: <404rvc$rrc@nnrp2.primenet.com> References: <403nll$ijj@seminole.gate.net> <404042$bum@galaxy.ucr.edu> <4043nq$1q2j@hopi.gate.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: usr2.primenet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]