Allen writes:
>
>> Randy Yates wrote:
>>> "Richard Crowley" writes:
>>>
>>>> "Randy Yates" wrote ...
>>>>> "Richard Crowley" writes:
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> How easy it is for us to do arm-chair engineering here 50+
>>>>>> years after the original development *with the technology of
>>>>>> the day*! This entire "discussion" reeks of revisionism and
>>>>>> has turned just completely silly.
>>>>> Richard, don't look now, but your old-fartness is showing.
>>>> Forgive me if I would rather take the word of the people
>>>> who actually did it over a bunch of prognostigations from
>>>> random Usenet users 50 years after the fact.
>>> I don't recall challenging anything the original designers said or
>>> developed, unless Michael Terrell is one such person.
>>> What does "prognostigation" mean? I can't find it in my dictionary.
>> Try "PrognostiCation", or "PrognostiCate". Of course, if you looked up
>> the original spelling you would have seen this immediately the blank
>> space that you looked at, so you have probably identified yourself as
>> a troll.
>
>Allen,
>
>Is it that satisfying to you to sit behind your computer and write
>nasty little messages like this to total strangers?
>
>If you would read the adjacent post I made on this very subject
>a few minutes ago, you would see my reasoning.
Or lack thereof.