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- From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
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- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:21:39 GMT
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- Gregory R Block (bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu) wrote:
- :
- : >The Mac has had a useful clipboard since day one.
- :
- : Where does this come from?
- :
-
- Apparently, someone asked about what the early Mac had for inter-process
- communication.
-
- :
- : First, Rexx is obviously much more than a
- : clipboard.
- :
-
- "Yes Greg, I have heard of Rexx. From my point of view it appears to be a
- rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat every non-Amiga
- advocate in this group with."
-
- :-):-):-):-):-):-):-)
-
- :
- : This was almost as cool as Peter da Silva telling you that in order to
- : make any use of extended memory on a DOS machine you had to 1) install
- : another OS, 2) use it as swap space, or 3) as a ramdisk, and you
- : telling him that Windows and OS/2 used extended memory as real memory
- : (which, if you hadn't figured out, falls under #1...)
- :
-
- Whoa! I misread Peter's conjunction as "and" instead of "or", so to me
- it sounded like he meant that even under OS/2, PC's could only use large
- memory as a RAM-Disk or swap space. I apologize for my sloppy reading.
- Sorry, Peter!
-
- : Greg
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- | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
- | Drummers do it... | Burlington, MA USA | in my book of memories. |
- | ... In rhythm! | jerry@msi.com | -- Guns N' Roses |
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