1GHz PDP-11 (Re: Prints for an 11/70)

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Thu Dec 13 12:17:53 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Wright [mailto:dtwright_at_uiuc.edu]

> The manual of the motherboard for the first PC I built had a
> statement to the
> following effect on the second page:

> "This manual has been carefully for errors to make sure correct."

It is also vaguely amusing when the author of some software documents in
English (which I'm usually very thankful for, since it's my first language),
but normally speaks another language. (German and French, (other Latin
languages too) are exceptionally prone to this)

For instance, I had an old 3d modeler for the POV raytracer whose
documentation contained the following (more or less):

"PV3D now is a freeware."

There are also these from a (very good) Atari Lynx development page:

"Thanks to a simple error Atari made. As you (maybe) know, all the
Atari-carts have an encrypyed header and a check-sum over the complete
rom-image. This checksum is so da?? good that changing a single-bit,the
INSERT GAME message causes." (Care to guess the native language? :)

>From the same page:

"But 65C02-code is compact and even with C are good program possible."

I've even in English noticed, that German-speakers tend to their verbs on
the end of sentences put. :)

(No offense, of course, I don't speak three words of German, myself...)

Regards,

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
 
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