From: "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > These kids wi' their Oracle databases didn't know they were born. I can > remember 'avin' to optimise programs by making sure that the next > instruction were comin' under the heads of t' drum just as the last > instruction were finishing. > > But yer tell these young folk nowadays and they just don't believe yer. <snip>
Too true - one of my contemporaries made NCR CRAM units sing - one card dropping, one on the drum, and one flying back up into the stack.... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
