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Re: Computers, anyone?

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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:34
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On 27 Jun 2018 09:01:24 GMT
Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> Couldn't agree more. I worked with MUMPS for a couple of years and loved
> it. I recently found and installed a Linux port of it, and thought it
> was junk.

	It would be a very sad thing if things in the computing world
weren't much much better than they were thirty years ago given the way the
underlying technology has been improving.

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Subject: Re: Computers, anyone?
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