[TUHS] reviving a bit of WWB
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Wed Feb 3 10:11:44 AEST 2021
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I've dealt with this, here is a story of a super computer where native
> pointers pointed at bits but C pointers pointed at bytes and you can
> shake your head at the promotion problems:
>
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-September/012050.html
Holy smoking inodes! I'd forgotten that story... And yes, I really was
approached by Pr1me, and really did turn them down on the basis that if
they thought that "1" was prime then what else did they get wrong?[*]
Oh, they went belly-up shortly afterwards, so it was probably just as well
(plainly the innumerate marketoids were in charge).
[*]
If you assume that "1" is prime then it breaks all sorts of higher (and
obscure) maths.
-- Dave
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