Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 20 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/19/24 4:30 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Charlie Gibbs wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

On 2024-12-19, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
 

I have contemplated ditching planes for trains, but I don't think the
result would be much better. Perhaps less security theater?

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     Some people like to travel by train because it combines
     the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure
     of an airplane.  -- Dennis Miller

 My dad took us (I and my sister) on train trips. I remember in the
dining car being asked if I wanted a Continental Breakfast. My kid's
mind imagined a breakfast feast, with eggs and sausage or bacon.
 Bleh, it was a pastry.  :-(

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 Obviously not a 'luxury' train  :-)
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 The old Orient Express was reputed to offer better,
 but it catered mostly to wealthier clients.

Sigh... the world was just better in those days. We get to see the collapsing remains of a once great civilization. =(

 There IS a certain niceness to train travel - seems
 more 'organic' than planes, the rhythm of the tracks.
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 Alas, in the USA, the tracks tend to be poorly maintained.
 Derailment is always possible. Euro rail is likely much
 more reliable.

Europe is bad. Europe is on the other hand, a lot of separate countries, so from personal experience I can tell you that sweden is horrible, and so is germany.
Switzerland was great!
I also had a good experience in the UK, but I later learned that I was extremely lucky, and that apparently it isn't that great. But it was an italian company who ran the line from London to Manchester I took. At that time, worked alright.

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Similar with my mother. She asked if I wanted a "pine float". I
imagined a nice soda with ice cream and whipped cream.... It
was a toothpick floating on a glass of water. She cackled.
 ObLinux:
 Grepping for FLT_MAX, partial list:
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     /usr/include/values.h:#define   MAXFLOAT    FLT_MAX
     /usr/include/values.h:#define   FMAXEXP     FLT_MAX_EXP
 Now look for defines of FLT_MAX.
 

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