weeeee2

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   by weeeee2 1y ago

   Forth, PostScript and Assembly are the "natural" programming languages from the perspective of how what you express maps to the environment in which the code executes. The question is "natural" to whom, the humans or the
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   by weeeee2 1y ago

   <<It was a lot of bang paths, where you'd list your e-mail address from a pretty well known location, like "hpfcla!hpilsb!linsomniac" and the sender would have to know or use trial and error to say "I bet ihnp4 can
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   by weeeee2 1y ago

   Yes but I was referring to "email him ... [in 1986]" and wondering about what he meant by "email" exactly in 1986...
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   by weeeee2 1y ago

   Are you sure it was '86? I was using IBM's BITNET in 88 from UMASS before Al Gore invented the Internet lol. Email took 2 days to go from Boston to London, passing thru a node in California before routing to the UK. I got on Usene