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Posting history for user COMICS::DEMORGAN

331 notes across 27 conferences

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SWIFT::DEMORGAN1Thu Sep 08 1988Thu Sep 08 1988Richard De Morgan, UK CSC
WIZZER::DEMORGAN1Tue Oct 11 1988Tue Oct 11 1988Richard De Morgan, UK CSC
42441::DEMORGAN3Tue Feb 14 1989Wed Feb 15 1989Richard De Morgan, UK CSC/CS
BEANO::DEMORGAN1Thu May 25 1989Thu May 25 1989Richard De Morgan, UK CSC/CS

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thebay::joyoflex101The Joy of Lex
milord::war_story36 Computer War Stories
dypss1::brain_bogglers33Brain Bogglers
turris::languages31Languages
turris::ada22DEC Ada
gidday::golden_turkey16Golden Turkey awards
noted::hackers13** Hackers **
rusure::math12Mathematics at DEC
vaxaxp::notes$archive:vmsnotes_v611VMS and more...
vaxaxp::notes$archive:vmsnotes_v59VMS and more...
tallis::vax9VAX Architecture
turris::pascal6DEC Pascal Notes
proxy::calypso5CALYPSO -- VAX 6000-xxx Family Notes
cookie::jcs4VAX Jukebox Control Software
vaxaxp::notes$archive:vmsnotes_v34VAX/VMS and more...
turris::vaxc3VAX C Notes
proxy::scorpio3VAX 82xx and VAX 83xx Product Information
turris::fortran-vax2VAX FORTRAN Development Notes
turris::vaxeln_ada2VAXELN Ada
vaxaxp::notes$archive:vmsnotes_v42VAX/VMS and more...
vmszoo::rms_openvms1RMS asks, 'R U Journaled?'
broke::dectrace1
wonder::vss_performance1VSS Performance Notes Conference
tallis::tops1TOPS-10/20 discussions held here
turris::debug1DEBUG
turris::lsedit1VAX Language-Sensitive Editor Notes
turris::pli1PL/I Notes

Conference turris::ada (DEC Ada)

22 posts
TOPIC 497.0 A PC compiler?
497.6Wed Aug 02 1989 06:13 You should be so lucky! 4 lines
TOPIC 531.0 We need 8-bit chars
531.10Thu Aug 06 1987 12:16 Algol 60 is Modified 4 lines
TOPIC 872.0 TASKING in the "real" world of VMS
872.19Fri Apr 28 1989 06:04 more on stacks 2 lines
TOPIC 977.0 How about calling SPRINTF from ADA?
977.17Tue May 24 1988 10:32 don't parse formats formally!!! 4 lines
TOPIC 1021.0 REVIEW OF ADA BOOK OUTLINE (DIGITAL PRESS)
1021.4Wed Jun 22 1988 11:54 me too 3 lines
TOPIC 1028.0 Constraint error in string accessing
1028.6Mon Jun 27 1988 09:55 a well-known piece of mis-programming 8 lines
1028.8Mon Jun 27 1988 12:05 clarification 4 lines
TOPIC 1031.0 DECwindows disables VAX Ada tasking?
1031.9Wed Jun 29 1988 05:40 Rewrite the VCG! 4 lines
TOPIC 1086.0 Passing Discrimanted Ada Record to Pascal
1086.1Wed Aug 10 1988 13:29 No - it won't work 11 lines
TOPIC 1160.0 Problems with an ADA development LAVc?
1160.1Tue Oct 11 1988 11:50 Use a queue 1 lines
TOPIC 1163.0 Ada garbage collection -- how?
1163.8Thu Oct 20 1988 12:09 various comments 10 lines
TOPIC 1228.0 ?Ada Case Conventions?
1228.5Tue Jan 10 1989 06:24 I agree with .4 2 lines
TOPIC 1251.0 ADA CROSS COMPILER
1251.1Wed Jan 11 1989 05:38 Alsys 15 lines
1251.9Fri Jan 13 1989 09:58 XD-Ada as I understand the situation 6 lines
TOPIC 1256.0 Delay changes CPU time??
1256.3Wed Jan 25 1989 11:47 yes - there are ways 9 lines
TOPIC1316.0Thu Mar 09 1989 10:57 does analyse/crash work with Ada programs? 29 lines
1316.1Thu Apr 06 1989 05:33 any exotic instructions in Ada? 9 lines
TOPIC 1393.0 Passing Exceptions to a Generic Package
1393.3Fri May 26 1989 09:14 non-orthogonality strikes again 4 lines
TOPIC 1407.0 ADA tasks or VMS processes
1407.3Wed Jun 07 1989 07:26 customer needs some expertise 3 lines
TOPIC 1486.0 FORTRAN -> ADA Converter?
1486.1Mon Aug 07 1989 07:15 Surely you jest? 4 lines
1486.3Mon Aug 07 1989 12:10 lots of problems ... 6 lines
1486.12Thu Aug 10 1989 12:13 short routine 1 lines

Conference turris::fortran-vax (VAX FORTRAN Development Notes)

2 posts
TOPIC 449.0 Looking for faster SIN, COS
449.8Fri Sep 09 1988 10:57 unethical behaviour 8 lines
TOPIC 515.0 PARENTHESES??
515.8Fri Oct 28 1988 11:35 beware of all compilers! 25 lines

Conference turris::pascal (DEC Pascal Notes)

6 posts
TOPIC 692.0 Order of evaluation in IF condition
692.15Tue Sep 22 1987 07:02 various thoughts ... 14 lines
TOPIC 740.0 PASCAL EXITLOOP construct??
740.6Wed Sep 09 1987 09:58 aaarrrgggggh - labels!!! 3 lines
TOPIC 955.0 PASCAL/VMS and Concurrency
955.2Wed May 18 1988 12:29 try Ada 1 lines
TOPIC 1060.0 Passing Discriminanted Record from Ada to Pascal
1060.1Thu Aug 11 1988 09:50 Replied to in Ada NOTESfile. 1 lines
TOPIC 1147.0 Beginners Question
1147.3Thu Oct 27 1988 10:13 why not use a calculator? 5 lines
TOPIC 1181.0 $CMKRNL Problem?
1181.2Fri Dec 02 1988 11:37 Don't like use of HALT. 3 lines

Conference turris::vaxc (VAX C Notes)

3 posts
TOPIC 1653.0 printf args w/post increment
1653.4Thu Oct 06 1988 10:28 VAX stack architecture => problems 4 lines
TOPIC 1725.0 printf OPTIMISE ?
1725.6Tue Nov 15 1988 12:13 a small niggle 4 lines
TOPIC 1753.0 Questions on Optimization choices by the compiler?
1753.24Wed Nov 30 1988 10:41 why is NOP not used? 5 lines

Conference vaxaxp::notes$archive:vmsnotes_v5 (VMS and more... )

9 posts
TOPIC 787.0 DCL subroutines and local symbols.
787.6Tue Jul 12 1988 11:04 Origins of DCL etc? 11 lines
TOPIC 874.0 VTX Infobase for Internal PAKs
874.16Tue Aug 02 1988 12:16 ? .12 ??? 4 lines
TOPIC 1330.0 <ctrl>t -> adjwsl(wsquo)
1330.1Fri Sep 02 1988 13:12 it's a feature 1 lines
TOPIC 1639.0 Whole VMS/VWS system LOCKs UP. Where to look?
1639.6Wed Oct 19 1988 07:52 we saw one in V4.7 a long time ago 4 lines
TOPIC 1679.0 V4.7 PFNLISTCNT Inconsistent PFN list
1679.1Thu Oct 20 1988 10:22 also frequently on a customer's 750 6 lines
1679.2Fri Oct 21 1988 07:04 sorry - not PFNLISTCNT 1 lines
TOPIC 1961.0 There is an 'A' in KERNAL...
1961.9Thu Nov 03 1988 10:56 correct comments too! 4 lines
TOPIC 2283.0 SIMPL language on VMS ?
2283.3Tue Dec 06 1988 05:34 CDC SIMPL 6 lines
TOPIC 2322.0 QIO Extends
2322.5Thu Dec 08 1988 06:01 VMS V5 high watermarking 6 lines

Conference vaxaxp::notes$archive:vmsnotes_v6 (VMS and more... )

11 posts
TOPIC 93.0 6300 Questions
93.6Fri Jan 13 1989 05:44 widely known about over here 2 lines
TOPIC531.0Thu Feb 16 1989 12:03 Linking problem with SYS.STB 15 lines
531.2Fri Feb 17 1989 10:20 Appendix G no use 9 lines
531.4Fri Feb 17 1989 12:04 still can't find those IOC$... things 6 lines
TOPIC884.0Wed Mar 22 1989 09:14 process dump problem with Ada??? 33 lines
TOPIC 966.0 $CRMPSC question
966.9Mon Apr 03 1989 06:16 comment on "cactus stacks" 3 lines
TOPIC 1008.0 Perf guidelines: Max # of files in a DIRECTORY?
1008.6Thu Apr 06 1989 04:57 search list solution 5 lines
TOPIC 1110.0 VAX data types vs IEEE?
1110.1Thu Apr 13 1989 10:16 no - we don't 4 lines
TOPIC 1649.0 How to force another process to dump?
1649.5Mon Jun 12 1989 10:37 can be done 6 lines
TOPIC 1666.0 ACCESS VIOLATION WHEN ANA/ERRLOG
1666.1Tue Jun 13 1989 07:38 looks like it's done an REI - but why? 3 lines
TOPIC 2165.0 VOLUME SET: HSC + NON HSC disks ???
2165.7Mon Aug 07 1989 11:44 maybe we did it first? 7 lines

Conference vmszoo::rms_openvms (RMS asks, 'R U Journaled?')

1 posts
TOPIC 870.0 How do you open process permanent files and channels
870.5Fri Jan 13 1989 09:24 can be hacked in supervisor mode 7 lines

Conference broke::dectrace ()

1 posts
TOPIC 17.0 Thinking of "DECcollector" as official name
17.1Tue Mar 21 1989 06:01 no - I don't like it 4 lines

Conference cookie::jcs (VAX Jukebox Control Software)

4 posts
TOPIC 16.0 Automatic jukebox unlock if process dies
16.1Mon Jul 25 1988 11:10 ? process id ? 2 lines
16.3Tue Jul 26 1988 09:23 I still don't think it's solid. 2 lines
TOPIC22.0Thu Jul 28 1988 09:46 Press report on RV64 10 lines
22.2Mon Aug 08 1988 07:46 Contact George McGhee 4 lines

Conference dypss1::brain_bogglers (Brain Bogglers)

33 posts
TOPIC 13.0 Man and octopus in wash. mach.
13.81Thu Feb 25 1988 11:22 footnote on octopi and grammar 4 lines
TOPIC 36.0 A SOAP OPERA
36.3Wed Mar 16 1988 06:29 bonked? 2 lines
TOPIC 51.0 Cornering Problems.
51.7Thu Mar 31 1988 06:05 German bus system c1929 4 lines
TOPIC 156.0 Five different in a Row
156.3Fri Feb 10 1989 08:52 .2 not a solution 7 lines
TOPIC 184.0 KIDNAPPED!!
184.5Tue Jul 12 1988 13:06 English mains voltage 13 lines
TOPIC 288.0 In space or on earth?
288.25Tue Apr 19 1988 07:51 Coriolis and La Manche 2 lines
288.28Wed Apr 20 1988 07:17 It is Coriolis force 3 lines
TOPIC 358.0 A rectangular view of a square
358.12Wed Apr 20 1988 06:25 General formula? 10 lines
358.14Wed Apr 20 1988 09:29 You're right 2 lines
TOPIC 369.0 Construct an oval
369.4Tue May 03 1988 06:08 a clue??? 6 lines
TOPIC 370.0 An unpronouncable word.
370.12Tue May 03 1988 06:26 More on Featherstonehaugh 10 lines
TOPIC 383.0 how much does earth curve a 1 mile wide pond ?
383.2Tue May 10 1988 10:09 pond? 1 lines
TOPIC394.0Fri May 20 1988 09:41 adjacent vowels 4 lines
394.2Mon May 23 1988 05:05 correct 2 lines
TOPIC 407.0 Chess: checkmate the invisible king
407.5Tue Jun 07 1988 12:07 another solution 2 lines
407.7Wed Jun 08 1988 12:25 doesn't say you can't 2 lines
TOPIC 429.0 4 times 4
429.4Fri Jul 01 1988 05:45 Aleister Crowley did this. 2 lines
TOPIC 439.0 Prime # ?
439.7Wed Jul 13 1988 13:24 Also in Algol 60 4 lines
TOPIC 452.0 3 services to 3 houses
452.6Tue Jul 26 1988 12:07 No Solution in 2D. 4 lines
TOPIC 454.0 take two balls
454.9Fri Jul 22 1988 06:14 and now to eggs ... 10 lines
TOPIC 458.0 DETECTIVE: DOUBLE HOMOCIDE
458.4Tue Jul 26 1988 12:11 A wild guess 4 lines
TOPIC 513.0 I am not a number , I am a free man...
513.32Thu Sep 08 1988 11:54 Catherine Eddowes? 4 lines
513.36Mon Sep 19 1988 13:04 Moriarty killed him! 9 lines
TOPIC 571.0 Give a shot to this one!
571.18Thu Oct 27 1988 12:38 5th? 4 lines
TOPIC585.0Fri Oct 21 1988 12:26 yet another number sequence - but different 3 lines
585.6Wed Oct 26 1988 13:19 cryptic clue 1 lines
585.8Thu Oct 27 1988 12:27 food clue 2 lines
585.9Thu Nov 17 1988 10:41 Here's the answer 7 lines
TOPIC 592.0 Programming Twist # 2
592.7Fri Oct 28 1988 07:20 which Algol? 5 lines
TOPIC 622.0 Golden Ratio
622.7Wed Nov 30 1988 03:45 Fibonacci Quarterly 6 lines
TOPIC 628.0 Back to school
628.3Wed Nov 30 1988 12:00 G B S said it? 2 lines
TOPIC 724.0 6 consonants in a row
724.20Mon May 22 1989 13:16 Knightsbridge 2 lines
TOPIC 804.0 Card Probability II
804.1Fri Aug 04 1989 12:17 what odds? 2 lines

Conference milord::war_story ( Computer War Stories )

36 posts
TOPIC 12.0 break the hdwe with SW
12.16Thu May 12 1988 12:36 various odds and ends 29 lines
TOPIC 15.0 Cold Computer Rooms
15.10Thu May 12 1988 13:09 a hot KA10 story 4 lines
TOPIC 19.0 What's cold, wet and broken?
19.10Fri May 13 1988 06:21 another watery tale 11 lines
TOPIC 20.0 How to kill a machine....
20.35Fri May 13 1988 10:44 a tale of an ICL System 4/60 11 lines
TOPIC 23.0 Military War Stories
23.24Wed Jul 27 1988 07:38 microwaved eggs/budgie 11 lines
23.53Mon May 22 1989 05:02 ECM? 1 lines
TOPIC 28.0 Chasing the wrong bit
28.3Tue May 24 1988 09:39 KA10 debugging 4 lines
TOPIC 30.0 The IBM Card Ejector
30.25Fri May 13 1988 12:50 ICL 1909 vardreader 13 lines
TOPIC 61.0 BYEBYE BIRDY
61.2Mon Mar 20 1989 12:12 a chicken gun 16 lines
TOPIC 85.0 Funky Filenames
85.29Thu Aug 18 1988 04:53 .23 undefined??? 3 lines
TOPIC 87.0 Disk recovery - or why make backups?
87.21Wed Apr 05 1989 11:23 register wear 5 lines
TOPIC 90.0 A new kind of bug: the Heisenbug
90.42Wed May 18 1988 07:19 JFFOs, Atlas etc. 102 lines
TOPIC 91.0 60-Hz forever
91.3Wed May 18 1988 07:53 UK 50Hz 11 lines
TOPIC 94.0 The livewire electrician!
94.17Wed May 18 1988 10:05 low voltage horror story 20 lines
TOPIC 96.0 My favorite repair story
96.16Wed May 18 1988 11:30 an installation problem 48 lines
TOPIC 122.0 The printer is ribbin' me!
122.9Thu Nov 10 1988 11:28 an ICL story 10 lines
TOPIC 133.0 US Sprint; You owe $1.00CR
133.15Fri Jun 10 1988 06:22 what to do? 6 lines
TOPIC 142.0 Editor stories
142.31Mon Nov 14 1988 12:18 another flexowriter user 7 lines
TOPIC 147.0 time
147.11Thu Sep 01 1988 12:34 I think not (at least over here) 13 lines
TOPIC 151.0 Varmints in the machines
151.9Mon May 23 1988 11:37 LA50 cat 2 lines
151.25Thu Sep 01 1988 13:02 various versions of .11 9 lines
TOPIC 157.0 Long Response Times
157.8Thu Aug 11 1988 12:33 The missing pound sign 9 lines
157.10Thu Oct 27 1988 06:31 where's the pound sign? 6 lines
TOPIC 162.0 Say cheese.
162.2Tue Jun 14 1988 09:56 nostalgia 2 lines
TOPIC 163.0 Computers and Religion
163.9Tue Jun 14 1988 10:08 how not to design a machine 8 lines
TOPIC 170.0 Ay-yuh love FORTRAN
170.4Thu Jul 21 1988 05:59 I remember F40 5 lines
TOPIC181.0Wed Jun 08 1988 04:21 The ICL MCR 22 lines
181.4Fri Jun 10 1988 06:45 ICL 1900 Galactic Storage Device 20 lines
181.6Fri Jun 10 1988 13:04 only available on paper - remember paper? 2 lines
181.9Wed Jun 15 1988 05:03 good luck with typing it in 1 lines
TOPIC 187.0 Hogging a VAXcluster.
187.11Fri Aug 12 1988 11:07 What office?? 8 lines
TOPIC 191.0 Computerized Pizza Deliveries
191.6Thu Sep 08 1988 12:34 why let it be diabled by caller? 3 lines
TOPIC 200.0 Do VAXes have this problem?
200.16Thu Nov 10 1988 11:46 Watch out for Coriolis force! 5 lines
TOPIC 202.0 OK-HERE'S MY STORY...
202.6Fri Jan 06 1989 10:45 More disk sagas. 23 lines
202.9Tue Jun 06 1989 07:26 we have some rules about this 4 lines
TOPIC 207.0 Dust downs the computer!
207.8Mon Mar 20 1989 12:19 more sausage cookers 4 lines

Conference wonder::vss_performance (VSS Performance Notes Conference)

1 posts
TOPIC 34.0 Instruction Tracing Tool (ITRACE)
34.4Wed Apr 12 1989 07:50 that slow? 6 lines

Conference noted::hackers (** Hackers **)

13 posts
TOPIC 40.0 Is there a defense for VMS?
40.32Wed Nov 16 1988 06:11 good and bad bits 3 lines
40.45Tue Nov 22 1988 10:34 Manchester Atlas. 5 lines
40.47Fri Nov 25 1988 04:20 what's Manchester Encoding? 1 lines
40.49Mon Nov 28 1988 10:25 thanks for the enlightenment 2 lines
TOPIC 67.0 image activation
67.7Tue Jun 28 1988 12:39 don't call SYS$IMGACT 6 lines
TOPIC 178.0 For discussion - CS vs Eng background
178.19Mon Jul 04 1988 12:09 Pre-C days 8 lines
TOPIC 251.0 Code to generate calendar pages?
251.12Fri Sep 02 1988 07:44 See WAR_STORY note 147 2 lines
TOPIC 417.0 Any takers for a day of week subroutine?
417.6Fri Jan 06 1989 06:21 what about the year 2000? 2 lines
417.9Mon Jan 09 1989 10:20 Here's the arithmetic 28 lines
417.11Mon Jan 09 1989 12:17 I still think it ought to be 2000 6 lines
TOPIC 582.0 Wanted: PDP-8/e Software/Hardware/Documentation
582.4Thu Apr 20 1989 11:01 more memories 7 lines
TOPIC 679.0 synchronizing system clocks via DECnet
679.23Thu Aug 10 1989 11:52 Also by radio ... 6 lines
TOPIC 724.0 Dhrystones & Whetstones...?
724.1Tue Aug 15 1989 06:58 some historical info 7 lines

Conference proxy::calypso (CALYPSO -- VAX 6000-xxx Family Notes)

5 posts
TOPIC 115.0 62xx vs 85xx ??
115.9Tue Aug 16 1988 12:29 75% of what? 1 lines
TOPIC 185.0 6200 and H-float performance problem
185.1Fri Nov 25 1988 06:12 1 lines
TOPIC 228.0 truth of Cobol on 6xxx???
228.9Wed Feb 08 1989 06:09 another strategy 4 lines
228.11Thu Feb 09 1989 06:14 clarification 8 lines
TOPIC 232.0 6220 - ultrix - test
232.1Wed Feb 08 1989 06:17 wrong standard 1 lines

Conference proxy::scorpio (VAX 82xx and VAX 83xx Product Information)

3 posts
TOPIC 244.0 V5.0 + EMC memory ?!?!
244.3Thu Jul 14 1988 07:56 memory controller critical? 7 lines
TOPIC311.0Thu Apr 06 1989 07:15 ECO levels for 8350 6 lines
311.2Fri Apr 21 1989 11:25 thanks! - further funny 10 lines

Conference gidday::golden_turkey (Golden Turkey awards)

16 posts
TOPIC 3.0 The worst SF Movie
3.121Tue Jun 27 1989 12:52 is this the one? 5 lines
TOPIC 5.0 Worst DEC product - Software
5.52Tue May 02 1989 11:14 another error message 3 lines
TOPIC 6.0 The worst car...
6.101Mon May 15 1989 13:27 no! not the Reliant Scimitar 24 lines
TOPIC 7.0 Worst DEC Product - Hardware
7.67Tue Jun 27 1989 13:23 more VT52 saga 3 lines
TOPIC 9.0 Genuinely offensive books
9.58Mon May 15 1989 12:41 anyone for Salman Rushdie? 4 lines
TOPIC 18.0 The Worst Ad (continued)
18.111Tue Jun 27 1989 05:59 more on iceburk lettuce 3 lines
18.112Tue Jun 27 1989 06:01 more on cat food. 3 lines
TOPIC 20.0 Your worst hotel
20.21Mon Jun 05 1989 11:17 More Post House 8 lines
TOPIC 34.0 * customers *
34.9Tue Jun 13 1989 11:58 Conference pointer updated 1 lines
TOPIC 36.0 Worst researched book (fiction)
36.2Mon Jun 12 1989 10:01 read some of his other books 2 lines
TOPIC 41.0 GRADE 'A' TURKEYS..
41.10Tue Aug 01 1989 06:31 Ivan the Terrible. 5 lines
TOPIC 70.0 Turkey Laws
70.19Wed Jun 28 1989 06:58 Mass law 9 lines
TOPIC 83.0 Worst Drivers
83.20Wed Jun 28 1989 11:40 driving in Italy 32 lines
TOPIC 88.0 WORST PUBLIC SERVICE
88.12Wed Jun 28 1989 12:22 US immigration 8 lines
TOPIC 92.0 Sports Beauties
92.16Mon Jul 03 1989 07:42 see VNS 3 lines
TOPIC 94.0 Worst Company Names
94.25Mon Jul 03 1989 07:50 tits 2 lines

Conference rusure::math (Mathematics at DEC)

12 posts
TOPIC 321.0 A Better Fireplace Front
321.5Tue Nov 10 1987 10:13 Horns etc 6 lines
TOPIC 372.0 BIG IDEAS FOR YOUNG MATHER
372.8Mon Nov 16 1987 04:25 The Last Problem 3 lines
TOPIC 432.0 Easy Road to Fame
432.12Fri Nov 27 1987 10:25 Goldbach Conjecture? 2 lines
TOPIC 790.0 Convergence of Infinite Series
790.3Mon Feb 15 1988 03:58 Gamma? 13 lines
TOPIC 810.0 Tower Location
810.2Tue Feb 16 1988 10:14 N Vietnam 8 lines
TOPIC829.0Tue Feb 23 1988 04:13 Folium of Descartes? 9 lines
829.3Wed Feb 24 1988 03:46 Thanks, correct solution 3 lines
TOPIC 838.0 forcing complicated wildcarding operations
838.2Mon Mar 07 1988 04:00 it's recursive! 2 lines
TOPIC 846.0 Pythagorean Converse
846.11Thu Mar 31 1988 03:55 Chinese discovery? 5 lines
TOPIC 847.0 Proof requested - construction of regular pentagon
847.6Thu Mar 31 1988 03:43 Fibonacci was here 9 lines
TOPIC890.0Thu Jun 23 1988 11:38 help with fiscal calendar needed 25 lines
TOPIC 903.0 PHYSICS notesfile?
903.15Mon Jul 25 1988 11:48 math??? 5 lines

Conference tallis::tops (TOPS-10/20 discussions held here)

1 posts
TOPIC 62.0 Written out of the History books?
62.4Wed Aug 05 1987 11:21 PDP-K 3 lines

Conference tallis::vax (VAX Architecture)

9 posts
TOPIC 27.0 Will we ever use S1 space?
27.10Wed Oct 05 1988 11:26 Seen S1 virtual addresses in dump! 3 lines
27.12Fri Oct 07 1988 11:19 Not registers 1 lines
TOPIC 140.0 News Clippings
140.6Wed Sep 14 1988 09:26 software strategy question 3 lines
TOPIC 148.0 Build a case table above the CASE??
148.1Thu Aug 18 1988 07:17 not quite right 2 lines
148.2Thu Aug 18 1988 09:35 Strange and peculiar! 5 lines
148.3Thu Aug 18 1988 10:21 some clarification 3 lines
148.11Wed Aug 31 1988 09:34 Mea culpa 8 lines
TOPIC 150.0 While we are at it, why MOVO?
150.2Mon Sep 05 1988 09:16 CVAX emulation??? 1 lines
TOPIC 167.0 New Year's brainteaser: IPL=0?
167.2Wed Jan 04 1989 11:08 I've seen one as well 4 lines

Conference thebay::joyoflex (The Joy of Lex)

101 posts
TOPIC 3.0 DIGITALese
3.131Tue May 03 1988 11:41 More instantiation 2 lines
TOPIC 4.0 Annoying phrases...
4.193Thu Sep 01 1988 19:13 administrativia? 2 lines
TOPIC 5.0 Mispronunciations
5.122Tue Sep 22 1987 09:25 more on Featherstonehaugh 2 lines
TOPIC 8.0 misspelled words
8.16Wed Aug 16 1989 11:47 "ER" over here 3 lines
TOPIC 28.0 Interesting Signs..
28.84Thu Sep 03 1987 11:15 help! quicksand!!! 9 lines
28.98Fri Apr 29 1988 11:07 streaking anybody? 1 lines
TOPIC 31.0 Separated by a common language..
31.46Tue Sep 08 1987 13:05 Haggis = pudding? 7 lines
TOPIC 37.0 Query on quotes
37.40Wed Sep 09 1987 10:56 I agree with .26 23 lines
TOPIC 78.0 --And Dictionaries of Slang
78.3Wed Sep 30 1987 09:54 Victorian slang 4 lines
78.5Mon Nov 09 1987 11:13 Victorian slang 132 lines
78.9Tue Nov 10 1987 03:59 aka Return of Moriarty 2 lines
TOPIC 137.0 Who you callin' a YOBBO???
137.2Fri Aug 14 1987 04:48 Found it! 6 lines
TOPIC 139.0 myth buster
139.9Wed Oct 07 1987 13:06 Horns and trumpets 18 lines
TOPIC 148.0 Signs of our times!!!
148.41Fri Oct 09 1987 07:25 Sorry, no ducks 5 lines
TOPIC 165.0 Dyslexics Have More Fnu
165.13Tue Oct 13 1987 10:37 Item from The Times 21 lines
TOPIC 232.0 Ten days
232.12Thu Oct 15 1987 06:57 I disagree 2 lines
TOPIC 311.0 Verb Alert!
311.42Fri Mar 11 1988 17:48 cats in a manor? 1 lines
TOPIC 321.0 Obscure measures, anyone?
321.54Thu Oct 15 1987 12:30 time and speed units 4 lines
321.58Tue Nov 17 1987 09:56 percentages 2 lines
TOPIC 391.0 Canadian English
391.18Thu Sep 10 1987 05:52 trash and rubbish 5 lines
TOPIC 396.0 Word association-football
396.2226Fri Feb 12 1988 12:47 42 -> answer to the ultimate question 1 lines
396.2243Mon Feb 15 1988 17:08 stolen pdp-8e 2 lines
396.2248Tue Feb 16 1988 14:46 Risus Sardonicus - sort of lockjaw. 3 lines
TOPIC 403.0 A translation question
403.7Fri Oct 16 1987 11:41 black magic connotations 6 lines
403.10Mon Jan 25 1988 17:03 "Dieu et mon droit? 4 lines
TOPIC 411.0 Intriguing etymologies
411.166Fri Mar 04 1988 14:54 "ambos" = "both"? 2 lines
411.168Fri Mar 04 1988 18:10 maybe not 3 lines
411.240Wed Apr 26 1989 11:27 more Coventry 9 lines
TOPIC 419.0 Mushroom or toadstool?
419.10Thu Oct 29 1987 05:48 renewed! 1 lines
TOPIC 423.0 phrases that we say but can't spell
423.10Mon Oct 26 1987 12:11 cross-eye bear 2 lines
423.38Thu Nov 19 1987 09:45 King Wencelas? 1 lines
TOPIC 427.0 Not just an error - a FATAL error
427.1Fri Oct 30 1987 03:48 and more ... 1 lines
427.12Mon Nov 09 1987 10:30 compiler error messages ... 20 lines
427.22Wed Nov 11 1987 03:47 magnetic rape 6 lines
TOPIC 428.0 Recite without hesitation ....
428.8Wed Nov 04 1987 03:36 also from Punch 82 lines
TOPIC 435.0 Red Sox
435.5Wed Nov 18 1987 11:03 Sexist! 1 lines
435.7Wed Nov 18 1987 12:13 must be a law against it 4 lines
TOPIC 444.0 The Great Vowel Shift
444.7Tue Dec 08 1987 11:41 Re .3 4 lines
TOPIC 445.0 Literal numbers
445.1Fri Nov 27 1987 09:59 manifest constant? 4 lines
445.3Fri Nov 27 1987 16:13 shades of BCPL 1 lines
TOPIC 446.0 Working with numbers ...
446.2Fri Nov 27 1987 14:58 so do I ... 2 lines
TOPIC 449.0 Calling all housewives!
449.3Tue Dec 08 1987 16:13 Housepersons? 1 lines
TOPIC 456.0 God help us - Sortation
456.10Thu Jan 21 1988 18:05 Running Confusion 2 lines
TOPIC 463.0 A 'BROO-ha-ha' over tricky words
463.64Thu Mar 03 1988 09:41 Hawley 2 lines
TOPIC 466.0 Mutating Terminology
466.12Mon Jan 18 1988 16:11 No mammal hermaphrodites 4 lines
TOPIC 471.0 what's smallest spelled number with "A" in it?
471.38Thu Jan 28 1988 18:01 more billions ... 13 lines
TOPIC 474.0 More verbed nouns
474.5Fri Feb 12 1988 17:24 nomenclache? 1 lines
474.6Wed Feb 17 1988 14:53 pacifated? 2 lines
TOPIC 478.0 THERE/THEIR HEAR/HERE TO/TOO/TWO
478.13Fri Feb 12 1988 09:27 cooking with Brylcream? 5 lines
TOPIC 481.0 Geometry
481.33Wed Mar 09 1988 12:00 ah ... neutrinos? 1 lines
TOPIC 482.0 Olympic acronyms
482.1Wed Feb 24 1988 17:55 Some help? 7 lines
TOPIC 491.0 Lost in the JOYOFLEX Jungle
491.10Mon Mar 14 1988 16:43 Whate - no thats? 3 lines
TOPIC 496.0 YOUR favourite word?
496.67Tue Jun 07 1988 10:25 metric foot definition 2 lines
TOPIC 502.0 Ensuring the proper use of Insure/Ensure
502.3Wed Apr 13 1988 18:58 UK insurance/assurance 12 lines
502.11Wed Apr 20 1988 17:21 VNS passim 10 lines
502.13Thu Apr 21 1988 17:38 English English 2 lines
502.16Fri Apr 22 1988 10:34 licence/license 4 lines
TOPIC 504.0 Regionalisms
504.12Mon Apr 18 1988 10:35 Facilitator? 3 lines
504.30Fri Apr 22 1988 19:07 also in NW 1 lines
TOPIC 506.0 Nausia...
506.19Tue Jun 14 1988 12:10 PDP 10/BWANA 3 lines
506.27Wed Jun 22 1988 11:41 another personalized plate 2 lines
TOPIC 507.0 Dialects
507.27Fri Apr 29 1988 12:19 New England accent? 3 lines
TOPIC 511.0 Walpurgis?
511.4Fri Apr 29 1988 12:15 No witches in our cemetery! 5 lines
511.9Tue May 03 1988 11:03 VNS survives Walpurgis Nacht 4 lines
511.11Tue May 03 1988 11:58 more about Borley Rectory 14 lines
TOPIC 518.0 Mill Specks Anyone?
518.7Mon May 09 1988 12:31 The Good Old Days 6 lines
TOPIC 521.0 This data is/These data are
521.19Thu May 19 1988 11:33 data is plural here? 3 lines
TOPIC 527.0 Any takers?
527.16Wed Jun 08 1988 17:58 Green cheese/scribbling engineers 9 lines
TOPIC 533.0 Poetic perversions
533.7Mon Jun 20 1988 12:37 bawdy versions of Mary has a little lamb 9 lines
TOPIC 534.0 Seen any funny house names?
534.1Wed Jun 22 1988 11:56 A 'Welsh' one? 2 lines
TOPIC 535.0 Names of inhabitants of locations
535.26Wed Jun 29 1988 10:53 Cestrians 1 lines
TOPIC 536.0 universal acronym
536.12Tue Jun 28 1988 11:01 Also English English 3 lines
536.28Tue Aug 09 1988 19:27 Two more 12 lines
TOPIC 553.0 Literary analysis of "IWADSN II" required
553.13Thu Sep 01 1988 19:08 roo the day? 2 lines
TOPIC 591.0 Del Monte plays catch-up
591.9Thu Jan 12 1989 17:33 Ketchup in the UK 1 lines
591.11Fri Jan 13 1989 09:51 ingredients 3 lines
TOPIC 604.0 Impossibles
604.18Fri Jan 13 1989 12:13 May Queens 5 lines
TOPIC617.0Wed Jan 25 1989 10:47 i before e except after c 9 lines
617.2Wed Jan 25 1989 12:47 1 lines
TOPIC 621.0 Heard any good node names?
621.5Wed Feb 08 1989 15:50 42.42 2 lines
621.6Wed Feb 08 1989 15:52 correction 1 lines
621.61Mon May 22 1989 13:39 Boasting again 2 lines
TOPIC 627.0 [In|En]quiry?
627.5Tue Feb 28 1989 18:01 we've had this before? 2 lines
TOPIC 637.0 Unprounceable II (Those Crazy Brits)
637.39Thu Apr 06 1989 19:21 Cirencester 1 lines
TOPIC 651.0 Hypothetical Law Firms, etc.
651.4Wed Apr 12 1989 12:13 Runne? 3 lines
TOPIC 652.0 Why did *you* leave?
652.8Mon Apr 17 1989 19:26 correction to name 2 lines
TOPIC 655.0 Pseudo-etymology
655.11Wed Apr 19 1989 19:05 what about Boston in England? 8 lines
655.16Thu Apr 20 1989 16:15 what ARE the rules re customers? 2 lines
TOPIC 657.0 A kindler, gentler America
657.6Wed Apr 26 1989 11:12 kindlier? 1 lines
TOPIC 664.0 Pub names
664.18Thu Jun 01 1989 16:51 may have been two pubs once 2 lines
TOPIC 667.0 PP ?
667.12Wed May 17 1989 19:24 some professions are like that 6 lines
TOPIC 670.0 "Six, two and even"
670.13Tue Aug 01 1989 17:41 sigma 1/(1 + odds) 5 lines
TOPIC 672.0 Rathole
672.14Thu Jun 01 1989 12:49 which infinity? 2 lines
TOPIC 674.0 Whither gender?
674.9Thu Jun 01 1989 12:43 ships are neuter 3 lines
TOPIC 676.0 I Saw It On A License Plate
676.9Thu Jun 01 1989 12:54 BWANA 1 lines
TOPIC 677.0 I Saw It On A Bumper Sticker
677.2Thu Jun 01 1989 12:57 streakers 2 lines
TOPIC 679.0 Lo, a Pale Straw Horse.
679.6Mon Jun 05 1989 11:01 Woodman 1 lines
TOPIC685.0Thu Jun 22 1989 18:56 short bawdy rhymes 10 lines
TOPIC 687.0 Fob off
687.4Mon Jun 26 1989 18:27 not the poll tax 6 lines
TOPIC688.0Tue Jun 27 1989 16:53 gobblegegook? 6 lines
TOPIC 695.0 Lirez le livre d'instruction == lld? (rtfm en france)
695.10Tue Jul 18 1989 12:00 not as good as Heath 2 lines

Conference turris::debug (DEBUG)

1 posts
TOPIC 454.0 Debugging an Access violation (Ada and BDS)
454.4Wed May 18 1988 12:51 need more stack for task 7 lines

Conference turris::languages (Languages)

31 posts
TOPIC 8.0 BLISS vs C
8.59Wed Sep 23 1987 09:52 Some Observations 17 lines
TOPIC 21.0 Other Languages
21.27Wed Sep 23 1987 13:21 Algol 60/68 37 lines
TOPIC 58.0 ALGOL vs. Pascal (vs. Modula-2)
58.12Thu Sep 24 1987 10:20 Algol 60 I/O 5 lines
TOPIC 71.0 ALGOL on VMS?
71.6Thu Sep 24 1987 10:38 Algol 68 is on VAX 7 lines
TOPIC 114.0 Battle of the hashing algorithms
114.5Thu Sep 24 1987 12:16 My hashing algorithm (copyright) 28 lines
114.7Fri Sep 25 1987 10:53 some reasons 7 lines
TOPIC153.0Mon Nov 09 1987 11:30 MIRFAC - a strange language 41 lines
TOPIC 154.0 how much is xyz.lang ?
154.1Wed Nov 25 1987 11:01 An opinion 28 lines
154.3Thu Nov 26 1987 05:05 Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhh!!! 3 lines
TOPIC 158.0 Miscellaneous Languages
158.9Mon Jan 04 1988 11:38 Algol 68 on VAX 8 lines
TOPIC 163.0 Parallel Processing Language Wanted
163.6Fri Jan 29 1988 11:09 Also Algol 68 4 lines
163.16Thu Feb 11 1988 03:48 Some more Algol 68 parallelism 36 lines
TOPIC188.0Fri Jun 10 1988 11:22 A languages war story 21 lines
TOPIC 189.0 Expression vs. statement languages
189.4Wed Jun 22 1988 13:00 Algol 68 36 lines
189.23Wed Jul 06 1988 13:23 Correction to .4 20 lines
TOPIC 190.0 Procedural and functional languages
190.1Fri Jun 24 1988 10:06 C not expression language 7 lines
TOPIC 193.0 CCITT Compiler Question for Telecomms
193.1Thu Jun 30 1988 12:55 Try DDC International 24 lines
TOPIC 197.0 Humor
197.2Tue Aug 09 1988 07:21 Double Dutch? 5 lines
TOPIC 210.0 RTL2 on a VAX?
210.1Wed Nov 02 1988 11:08 translate into Ada 7 lines
210.2Wed Nov 02 1988 11:10 Two issues 2 lines
TOPIC 221.0 1GL and 2GL Definition
221.7Thu Feb 09 1989 08:50 autocode - beware terminology 8 lines
TOPIC226.0Tue Mar 21 1989 05:45 analyse/process with Ada? 32 lines
226.4Fri May 19 1989 11:57 curiouser and curiouser 12 lines
TOPIC 232.0 Is the word 'collector' a compiler term?
232.8Thu May 11 1989 10:04 yes - there have been collectors 4 lines
TOPIC238.0Wed Jun 21 1989 11:22 demise of Algol 60 9 lines
238.6Fri Jun 23 1989 12:11 dynamic own arrays 32 lines
238.7Fri Jun 23 1989 12:25 The Algol Men 133 lines
238.8Fri Jun 23 1989 12:33 The Algollers 70 lines
238.10Tue Jun 27 1989 06:42 ? what problem 4 lines
TOPIC 240.0 Modula 3
240.2Thu Jun 22 1989 12:59 yes - there is a Modula-3 3 lines
TOPIC 242.0 Current VAX languages summary
242.1Fri Jul 21 1989 10:25 check SPDs 1 lines

Conference turris::lsedit (VAX Language-Sensitive Editor Notes)

1 posts
TOPIC593.0Fri Feb 12 1988 06:32 how to upcase reserved Ada words? 7 lines

Conference turris::pli (PL/I Notes)

1 posts
TOPIC 319.0 Pli Support for Complex Numbers
319.1Fri Aug 12 1988 10:11 No complex in lastest DP 2 lines

Conference turris::vaxeln_ada (VAXELN Ada)

2 posts
TOPIC 105.0 Stack questions
105.1Mon Sep 19 1988 07:39 RTFM 2 lines
105.8Thu Sep 22 1988 10:04 Stacks and Heaps 7 lines

Conference vaxaxp::notes$archive:vmsnotes_v3 (VAX/VMS and more...)

4 posts
TOPIC 1079.0 Where does "last interactive login" hide?
1079.10Fri Jul 31 1987 07:10 Please use DEC standards 9 lines
TOPIC 1282.0 how do I find default directory for another process?
1282.3Wed Sep 02 1987 07:19 super mode AST 7 lines
TOPIC 1558.0 What is VMS written in?
1558.7Thu Oct 08 1987 07:41 and KOALA ... 1 lines
TOPIC 1887.0 URGENT - BENCHMARK (FORTRAN - VMS)
1887.5Wed Nov 25 1987 11:52 why not use INDEX? 2 lines

Conference vaxaxp::notes$archive:vmsnotes_v4 (VAX/VMS and more...)

2 posts
TOPIC 336.0 Swapper Hysteria
336.4Tue Feb 16 1988 11:49 NETPATH 6 lines
TOPIC 436.0 A VMS time question??
436.4Wed Mar 02 1988 10:09 Clock can be fiddled 21 lines

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