Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:35:40 +0100, D wrote:

Many, on my mothers side of the family, have lived in the US for at
least a year or two, but all of them (me included) eventually came back
to where we came from.

They were Norwegians but I like to compare Rolvaag with Hamsun. Rolvaag
wrote 'Giants in the Earth' about the Norwegians in the Dakotas in the
1870s. He had emigrated and stayed in the US.

Hamsun spent a few years in America in the 1880s but went back. 'Hunger'
and some of his early works were a little strange but 'Growth of the Soil'
is set in rural Norway. There are many parallels to trying to make a life
in rural Dakota.


'Giants in the Earth' follows Per Hansa and his wife, Beret. Per really
wants to make a new life in America; Beret really wants to go home. She
eventually goes more or less insane. I don't know how well she would have
done in rural Norway either.