Posts by Steve Lee

Dumb eh?

A simple quiz

Who invented the World Wide Web - Europeans or Americans?

Who invented TV - Europeans or Americans?

Who invented antibiotics - Europeans or Americans?

Who invented the magnetron (short wave RADAR) - Europeans or Americans?

Who invented the transformer which enabled electricity to be shifted great distances - Europeans or Americans?

Who invented the jet engine - Europeans or Americans?

Who invented the worlds first electronic programmable computer - Europeans or Americans?

Who invented the worlds first electronic general purpose business computer - Europeans or Americans?

Who invented railways - Europeans or Americans?

Who invented the electric motor - Europeans or Americans?

Who split the atom - Europeans or Americans?

Where would the US be without all of the above? The list could be ten times longer but I got bored...

Re: Email address?

Profs/noss could always communicate with external email addresses via ibmmail exchange. I loved ehone too, I remember running a vm based web browser downloaded from ehone - interesting times. REXX was, and still is, the best scripting language ever. Python is a pale immitation!

Re: You are kidding right? Or maybe you meant to use the joke icon?

@NPCO543

"- iOS lacked multitasking until version 4" - Okay, that was a major grumble until Apple realised that closing down apps on exit wasn't a good idea. No phone OS has native multitasking. "

You are talking nonsense. Symbian has full pre-emptive multitasking - is did its predecessor Psion's EPOC which was happily multitasking (and multi-threading) away in your palm back in 1987 when Apple had only just released primitive co-operative task switching on its desktop OS! Even then it was a kludge - multitasking wasn't fully implemented until System 8 in 1997!