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Aylee -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 9:40:36 AM)
While that is indeed a TRUE statement, that is not the "in common" that I had in mind. Think RPG.

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 12:37:30 PM)
Let's see.... RPG = Report Program Generator, right? so these are Flat files Free the storage Far pointers (which were not even a physical possiblity when RPG first came out in the 60s - of last century.) ...then I got nothin' for fat.

mnottertail -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 12:41:36 PM)
LOL, you an iSeries AS400 guy? me too. Ron

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 1:02:00 PM)
Dear Minnesota resident (DAMN! I was tired when I made that comment.) Nope. I wrote my first computer program in 1967 while a High School Junior using Fortran on an IBM 360 mod 40. Teletypwriter punched paper tape into the local University over external modems - you waited for the tone and shoved the hand-set into the rubberized openings...... was I into BDSM at the time? I guesss so. LOL! Have always been a mainframer until "they" took most of them away.... well, actually until the desktops could do as much and more. And look what's happening now (principally in the business/government world).... dumb keyboards and dumber monitors connected thru cable/telphone lines to central processors! Sounds like the more things they change, the more they stay the same. <Lance repeats the quartet in a feeble attempt to apologize for what some might feel was a thread-jack. But, MOM! Otter started it! To which Mom replies, "I don't care. You finish it."> Flat Free Far Fat Clue: RPG

mnottertail -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 1:07:26 PM)
LOL-------360s.....my how time flies, most of the crap I worked on any mainframes was cobol. So once you got past the teletype at university, you did the hollerith cards and trays? PITA!!!!!!! Yeah, back to central computers and most of this web stuff is a fancy CICS model. Ron

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 1:29:34 PM)
<Lance yells: "MOM! He won't let me go..... he's making me do this.... To which Mom replies, "I don't care. Nobody can make you do anything you don't want to."> Damn! Mom was wise! <Lance whispers to Otter, so Mom doesn't hear: "Yes, Hollerith cards..... I still have some, oh, and a hardwired core plane."> <Mom says: "Ahem...."> <"It's okay, Mom.... Otter's going home, so I'm just getting to my homework."> <As he repeats the quartet, Lance whispers, "Otter, send me c-mail, if you want"> Flat Free Far Fat Clue: RPG

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 4:00:02 PM)
Well, i never learned RPG IV, just ALGOL, FORTRAN, MAD, COBOL and assembler. But when Aylee said RPG, i wondered if there was another RPG. Apparently there is a video game or something called RPG. Research shows that RPG could also stand for Role Playing Game. So it's out of my area of expertise if it is a gaming thing. Some of the first Role Playing Games were on the University PDP-10's ...UNIX based. So here is the quartet again. Flat Free Far Fat Clue: RPG

Aylee -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 5:00:17 PM)
RPG = Role Playing Game for this quartet, NOT Rocket Propelled Grenade. Although those are kewl too!

mnottertail -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 5:06:16 PM)
for all you old geezers: rpg /free for I = 1 to 10 do; I =+ 1; enddo; shit like that, very C/C++ like and they have weakly typed pointers (which sucks, the weakly typed shit) and subprocedures and like the old link system, what is called service programs. enough geekspeak

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 10:27:29 PM)
Ah.... yes! "Service programs" aka subroutines. Now if I could just install one of those in the sub I'm training.... get it? A subroutine or better yet a service program. <Mom! Don't hit me, Mom. Otter AND fluffy made me do it!> "I told you young man, nobody can make you do anything!" "Mom, please let go of my arm! That hurts!" <Lance leaves to take his meds, comes back to say: Since RPG = something to do with gaming, I now have more nuthin' than fluff has. I'll be back after the solution appears. (And don't think I didn't google, 'cause I did.)

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 10:30:23 PM)
The current quartet: Flat Free Far Fat Clue: Role Playing Games

HatesParisHilton -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/26/2009 10:39:40 PM)
"halfling"?

Aylee -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/27/2009 12:00:56 PM)
All right, I will give one more clue. The RPG Traveller.

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/27/2009 7:25:49 PM)
The sub/slave I am training has a 5 year old cousin. Said cousin seems to be a Dom, because he has directed sale S.I.T. to play Super Mario endlessly. So that's his answer that I claim for myself becuase, after all, doesn't his "production" belong to me? Seems Mario starts out FLAT, becomes FAT, travels FAR to FREE the princess.

dcnovice -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/27/2009 7:41:47 PM)
Well, I just skimmed the Wikipedia entry for the Traveller RPG, and I'm still clueless.

Aylee -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/28/2009 6:08:39 PM)
Wrong Lance. Okay. . . I will give the answer and someone else can choose a new quartet. They are all merchant ship types in the Traveller RPG. Far Trader 200 ton type A2 Free Trader 200 ton type A Fat Trader 600 ton type R Flat Trader 1000 ton type MH

sunshinemiss -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/28/2009 6:34:35 PM)
It all LOOKS like English...

dcnovice -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/28/2009 6:36:45 PM)
NEW QUARTET: Mary Lincoln Letitia Garfield Ida McKinley Jacqueline Kennedy

Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/28/2009 6:38:13 PM)
First Ladies whose husbands were assassinated while President of the U.S.

dcnovice -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/28/2009 6:40:16 PM)
You got it MM, and in no time too. Your turn!

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