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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65747 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Lets see I speak Basic, ST, Amiga, PC and English... And A8 too. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Allie in Vancouver Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 |
30,200 - and I'm not a native speaker. <<< Speaks passable Mi'kmaq. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Lets see I speak Basic, ST, Amiga, PC and English... Forgot a few: Fortrann IV, Fortran 77, X86 Assembler, TI-99 Assembler, Cobol, lisp. There were a dozen or so more I learned in a language survey class. I wrote a C compiler is lisp (as a school project, not by choice). LISP stands for Lost In Stupid Parenthesis. BOINC WIKI |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65747 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Lets see I speak Basic, ST, Amiga, PC and English... Also MAC OS(Pre-OSX OS that is, ver 8.9 I think), PC DOS 1.1, MS DOS 3.3-6.0, A8 DOS, Amiga DOS(all in 1 computer too), TRS-80 v1 and it's basic, basic computing principles, Windows 3.1-Windows 7(but not ME or 98se), I started when floppies were 5.25" floppies(pre 3.5" fdd) and the 1st home computer that could do 256 colors on screen was an Atari 400/800 w/16-48K ram. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
I'm still not sure if that new-fangled Fortran 77 is trustworthy. I'm sticking to Fortran IV for now. Another interesting feature of English is how acronyms, sounded out phonetically, become words. Just about everybody uses radar and laser, possibly without knowing where they come from. In my narrow little specialty, wusspuss, higgee, hogee and stovel are commonly understood when spoken aloud. (Googgle WSPS, HIGE, HOGE and STOVL for their origins). |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
43,300. Nice to see that 20 years of education weren't a complete waste of time. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
I'm still not sure if that new-fangled Fortran 77 is trustworthy. I'm sticking to Fortran IV for now. LASER is a bit of a misnomer. Most of them are actually LOSERs - Light Oscilation by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Only the second or higher stage really ought to be a LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. BOINC WIKI |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Speaks passable Mi'kmaq. Heavens, now where would you have learned that? |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65747 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Well that was nearly 20 years ago, when I had a Commodore Amiga 4000 and It had real MAC OS roms on a card and I had a 386sx chipped card in it too. 3 different OSes in one computer, all at the same time, no other computer has done that since then. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
I do that at work all the time now - with VMWare. BOINC WIKI |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65747 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Well that was a combination of hardware & software and all 3 OSes would be operating at the same time and none were emulated either, plus I could operate a few 8 bit or a 16 bit ISA cards too. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29835 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
43,300. Finally someone who understands me:) |
Allie in Vancouver Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 |
Speaks passable Mi'kmaq. My Grandma was 1/2 Mi'kmaq and my brothers and I learned it as kids, but I haven't spoken it in 20 years. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
I speak Double Dutch and Fluent Rubbish. I can speak a little "Gobbledygook" but am much better at talking "Buncombe" though. Some say that I'm actually very good with the latter one and complement me by stating that at times I can talk "Utter Buncombe". ....I think I should have become a politician? The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
must be wrong it said: 44,000 words you would think that there are more words than that. |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Does all languages i speak count ? LOL With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
we got high it seemed like everyone did |
James C. Send message Joined: 19 Jul 06 Posts: 640 Credit: 18,352,758 RAC: 11 |
17,100 and a Native speaker. Oh my, time to hit the books! -"Young" James "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." -Steven Hawking |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
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