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RE: Sounds interesting
> Andrew Louie
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:22 AM
> To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List
> Subject: Re: Sounds interesting
>
> On 6/27/07, Dave Korn wrote:
> > Nah, he means it. Windows 200(BC) ran on most contemporary
> > abacuses, although many had to have more beads and thicker wires
> > installed to handle the heavy system load it imposed. Known to the
> > Romans as "Windows CC", it was the first operating system
> to allow you
> > to send a message to several citizens at once (by
> dispatching a bunch
> > of slaves in parallel), and to this day we still refer to a
> secondary destination for an email in a "CC" line.
>
> Actually the key difference between windows 200 and other
> modern abacuses at the time, was that windows 200 required an
> extra bead for line breaks,
...called a "line bead"...
> which lead to many headaches for
> abacuses users trying get their windows 200 programs to run
> on more modern abacuses.
>
>
> --
> -Andrew Louie
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