On Sunday 10 June 2018 10:32:55 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 10 June 2018 11:23:37 William Morder wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote:
> > > said William Morder:
> > > | This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you
> > > | have downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently?
> > > |
> > > | Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon.
> > > | However, I don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that repo
> > > | to my sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my
> > > | sources.list on an external hard drive.
> > >
> > > This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a computer
> > > show) back in the late 1980s. It had a small install routine that
> > > copied the program to the hard drive and overwrote autoexec.bat with
> > > the name of the executable file. In those days autoexec.bat could
> > > run to a couple of pages, with us all trying to make our machines a
> > > little faster and getting use of memory above 640k, which was a
> > > delicate thing. To say nothing of the TSR programs many of us ran.
> > > Setting comspec right after we copied command.com to a RAM drive.
> > > That kind of thing. So autoexec.bat was a nontrivial thing, and
> > > turning a well-tuned machine into a single-game console was
> > > troublesome.
> >
> > I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place
> > where dinosaurs still roam the earth.
> >
> > Bill
>
> They still roam the earth, Bill, except now we call them birds. :)

I wonder if they tasted like chicken or turkey, or more gamey like pheasant? 

Bill