Re: [trinity-users] Re: got a puzzle

On Sunday 10 June 2018 10:32:55 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 June 2018 11:23:37 William Morder wrote: > > On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote: > > > said William Morder: > > > | This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you > > > | have downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently? > > > | > > > | Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon. > > > | However, I don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that repo > > > | to my sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my > > > | sources.list on an external hard drive. > > > > > > This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a computer > > > show) back in the late 1980s. It had a small install routine that > > > copied the program to the hard drive and overwrote autoexec.bat with > > > the name of the executable file. In those days autoexec.bat could > > > run to a couple of pages, with us all trying to make our machines a > > > little faster and getting use of memory above 640k, which was a > > > delicate thing. To say nothing of the TSR programs many of us ran. > > > Setting comspec right after we copied command.com to a RAM drive. > > > That kind of thing. So autoexec.bat was a nontrivial thing, and > > > turning a well-tuned machine into a single-game console was > > > troublesome. > > > > I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place > > where dinosaurs still roam the earth. > > > > Bill > > They still roam the earth, Bill, except now we call them birds. :) I wonder if they tasted like chicken or turkey, or more gamey like pheasant? Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting