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I can never tell a zero from the letter O unless the zero is slashed. It's frustrating trying to enter a 16 character software license when those two characters are confused. As far as forward/backward slashes I have a memory trick for those. If the slash was a little man walking left to right he would either be leaning forward or leaning backward. It really bugged me when DOS used the wrong slash for directories and I confused them for a long time.
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Ken, I beg to differ. It was UNIX that used the "wrong" direction. 
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Dave, only problem with that argument is UNIX predates DOS UNIX got it's start way back in 1969 when Ken Thompson wrote a the first version on a PDP-7. QDOS was written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products in 79 and sold to MS in 1980 and renamed DOS.
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just to be sure it was not this Ken Thompson who wrote that.
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Are you sure? I'm sure the author of UNIX liked tractors too!
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Is that what you think he spent his money on? Could be.
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Ken, as you know, it wasn't much of an argument. UNIX is so much more powerful. I didn't know that it originated in the sixties.
I still do command line compilation in Unix on an almost daily basis. But now it's some crazy mix of Linux and Unix machines needed to compile the executables that run our MRI scanners.
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KT, It's funny. They call the area around here the Silicon Forest since Intel and other high tech companies are big here. Many of the Intel guys I know are buying property in rural areas and getting tractors, so high tech and tractors seem to go well together. The odds are good that the other KT likes tractors
Dave, you're right. Unix is much more powerful that anything MS has put out. It is disturbing when marketing trumps technology.
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Anyone here ever hear of APL (A Programming Language)? A pure mathematical vector language which utilizes a special keyboard. And you read it from right to left. I worked with that for a while.
It used to be pervasive at IBM but now none of the young people there never heard of it. More then 50% of people at IBM now have less than 5 years with the company. All my recent work has been done in SAS (Statistical Analysis System).
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I did a little APL in comparative language classes. It sure is a funny language with all the unique characters. The hardest to understand for me was Forth though.
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