bloody woollybacks. Yer durnt nur nowt bout t' computers or beatin's ower there.
mah dad used to etch the bits inter me skin with a bit 'o' ot' coal then beat me with 'is Commadore +4 Andrew Holway Yorkshireman On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Tony Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Samuel wrote: >> >> [...] >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch >> >> I remember when I could bring the complete kernel sources >> home on a single 3.5" floppy disk. Compressed, mind you, >> not this new fangled gzip! Then came 0.9.15, 1.8MB compressed.. > > Hello, Chris. > > 3.5" floppy - you were lucky! > > I 'ad t' run th'entire Minix on half a broken low-density 5.25" floppy, and > father would beat me wi a stick for wastin' precious disk space... > > ...and he'd complain that there's nowt wrong wi' th'old 8" floppies! > > Eee, by gum them were probably th'happiest days of mi life... > > [I'm from Lancashire, not Yorkshire, BTW] > > Tony. > -- > Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rowett Research Institute, | http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt > Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 > Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK. | fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
