While empathize with the yearning for the simpler time in computing, taking it from Ted Campbell [0], the Verda Spell passage seems like it was intended as a humorous invocation of a muse. Much like Homer did in the Iliad and Odyssey [1][2].
[0] https://sourceforge.net/p/bwbasic/bugs/7/#a62d [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muses#In_literature [2] https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/a-re-invocation-of-the-muse-for-the-homeric-iliad/ On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 11:55 PM Bryan Kilgallin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Alvah: > > > I wish I could articulate the > > valid things that are surrendered with the demise of computing at that > > level. Fortunately, people who invest time and energy into the use of > > FREEDOS understand what it is that I am unable to convey. > > There's a sense of understanding, and hence control. I am not > forking-out on expensive licences for proprietary software. That is so > complex that my friends don't understand half of it! > -- > members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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