Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:14:06 +0100, D wrote:

 
On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:14:29 +0100, D wrote:
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Anecdotally, I heard a story that once my grandfather visited sweden,
from iceland. And for some reason he and my mother were visiting the
country side in the north where they have a very strange dialect.
Apparently he could speak with an old man there in icelandic, and the
old man could speak this very rare dialect and they would understand
each other.

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Translators tend to get into cat fights over their versions. One of the
Icelanders alleged only they could accurately translate Old Norse since
they were still speaking it.

 
I do not agree. I agree it is close, but I find it improbable that
nothing has changed for a thousand years. They did have a nationalist
revival where I think purged some foreign words and tried to move it
back a bit.

I took it with a grain of salt. It's a different time frame but  while
Quebec French may be closer to 17th century French than the current
Parisian version it hasn't been preserved in amber.

https://www.sequentia.org/recordings/recording23.html

Bagby tried for the most accurate reproductions of medieval music possible
and iirc Sequentia spent a few months in Iceland working on the material,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLmzPKPcKmc