Re: The joy of FORTH (not)

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:55:30 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:13:49 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

... everybody has become spoiled by fast CPUs with lots of memory.

 
Do you drive an automatic? Everybody does on the US, don’t they?

Not everybody. My pickup is manual. My first Yaris was manual and I
preferred it. Circumstances intervened. It was totaled by a snowplow in
the same month Japan was facing a meltdown. I took what I could get, which
was an automatic. I traded it for a 2018 in 2020. I got a good deal on the
leftover and Toyota doesn't make the Yaris anymore. Even that year the
sedan was really a Mazda 2, with a different engine than the hatchback.

Oh, and all three bikes are manual. About 20 years ago I was selling a
Yamaha Seca and my boss expressed interest until he found out it wasn't an
automatic. I was relieved. He was an excellent manager but I didn't think
he'd be very good on a bike.

 

Talk about “spoiled”. I can claim moral superiority over you because I
drive a manual. By choice!

What level of superiority do I get for putting a few hundred thousand
mines on a Kenworth 13 speed and Volvo White 9 speed?" I'll be honest and
admit with the VW you rarely used the stump puller gear so it was
effectively an 8 speed.

After my father died my mother wanted to buy a new car. She was 70 at the
time and I had to convince her she could drive an automatic. She'd been
driving since 1921 and never had driven one. Even in the '60s manual were
hard to find but my father didn't like automatics.