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Article #625011Re: The history of the MONITOR tops-10)
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:18
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:18
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On 17 Jul 2018 16:11:11 -0400 Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote: > Gareth's Downstairs Computer > <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> writes: > > > On 15/07/2018 20:00, Peter Flass wrote: > >> Gareth's Downstairs Computer > >> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>> On 15/07/2018 11:03, Huge wrote: > > >>>> I find the word "ripoff" problematical. Virtually everything in > >>>> computer science is based on something else. Thinking "that's a good > >>>> idea" and re-using it in a new and interesting way is hardly > >>>> "ripping off". > > >>> ISTR that it was Isaac Newton who said that we stand on the shoulders > >>> of giants. > > >> Or, midgets are standing on my shoulders. > > > Larger fleas have smaller fleas > > Upon their backs to bite 'em. > > Smaller fleas have lesser fleas, > > And so ad infinitum. > > Swift. That they are, and they jump a lot. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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