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T-Recall BBS: Harder Disks, Bigger Bits, Tighter ASCII!
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T-Recall BBS: Harder disks, bigger bits, tighter ASCII!
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Zmodem has bigger bits, softer blocks, and tighter ASCII.
PROGRAMMERS have: Bigger disk
The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
The bigger thet are the harder they fall
Perkins's Postulate: The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
The bigger they are, the harder they hit. -- Perkin's postulate
The bigger they come the harder they fall. -- Robert Prometheus Fitzsimmo
Bart: [in the barber shop, getting a shave] Digital audio tape, my butt!
When <I> was a kid, we had compact disks, and &l...
fossil n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in C, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....