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

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:22:49 GMT,  wrote:

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

It is, but it's still useful.

>>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.  :-)

What a pleasant thought. (My best computer is a Pentium III. Oh boy.)

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