19 Sep
2017
19 Sep
'17
2:09 p.m.
On 2017-09-18 9:54 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
The name clearly doesn't reference the concept of prime numbers; that's
only coincidence (and the incompatibility might have been a clue).
Isn't it more obviously connected to Latin 'primus', meaning
'first'?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prime#Etymology_1
That Pr1me had a Unix emulation layer is news to
me (I think). I
worked on the Georgia Tech Software Tools Subsystem for Pr1me
Computers for several years. (Oh, how I wish I had saved that last
release tape!!!)
What I hated about Pr1me was they implied that "1" is prime; it is not,
as any mathematician will tell you.
In fact, I turned down a job opportunity there for precisely that
reason, on the grounds that if they got a simple concept like that
wrong, then where else did they screw up?