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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:18:54 -0700
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On 9/19/2024 12:15 PM, BGB wrote:
> On 9/19/2024 2:04 AM, Robert Finch wrote:
>> On 2024-09-18 10:30 p.m., BGB wrote:
>>> On 9/18/2024 2:29 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>>> On 9/18/2024 1:13 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>>>> On 17/09/2024 20:18, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:32:35 +0000, Bill Findlay wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 17 Sep 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote
>>>>>>> (in article<jwvmsk6i6uc.fsf-monnier+comp.arch@gnu.org>):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> With all respect to the regulars here, most people in technical 
>>>>>>>>> Usenet
>>>>>>>>> groups are either old, unusually nerdy, or both.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I plead guilty to nerdy, but as for old, I'm still 27 (and 
>>>>>>>> that's been
>>>>>>>> true for more than 20 years).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Stefan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Stefan!
>>>>>>> At least equally nerdy, I should think, but 50 years older.
>>>>>>> (Older, not old!)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At 71 real years old I still operate as if I were <let's say> 21.
>>>>>
>>>>> You are not 71, you are merely 0x47 :-)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> LOL! :^)
>>>
>>> Not going to say my exact age, but if I wrote my age in hex I could 
>>> almost try to pass myself off as an early Zoomer (rather than as a 
>>> millennial...).
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>> I think I am early GenX. 59 and still learning loads of stuff.
>> Old enough to remember tube TVs and radios. Transistorized pocket 
>> radio were a big thing.
>>
> 
> In my case, my childhood was mostly in the era of Win 3.x and Win 9x 
> PCs, and early dial-up internet (unlike most Zoomers, I remember a time 
> before YouTube).

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I remember way back wrt compuserve. :^)