Re: Interpreter for old basic programs from the line number era

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:35:00 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
<not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

<snip>
>Usenet still uses them, although you don't have to specify it any more 
>(in fact, Xnews provides no way to do so that I can see).
You mean the "Path:" line?  I think that that also is a holdover from
the old system, pre-modern internet.  When news was propagated from
modem to modem.

<snip>
>It's fun. I originally got it so I could make sure that my programs 
>worked in BeOS, and I've kept it and dinked around it since then. One 
>of these days, when my finances aren't so tight, I'll probably get 
>around to buying whatever modern BeOS-alike is popular. (Probably 
>somewhere around 2013.)
If MS has their way, you will need a 1024 processor cluster with a
terabyte of memory, and a multi terabyte disk drive system, just to
write a email.  :-)
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