In <capd5f5opl261uej7zc+of64p7lanekdh19wmzxuymtujwoa...@mail.gmail.com>, on 10/24/2011 at 05:41 PM, John Gilmore <johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com> said:
>You're out of line, Shmuel. Well, someone is. >You may prefer 'dispatch' to 'despatch', >but they are equally legitimate alternative spellings. Were the issue the general English meaning of the word, you'd have a point. But the issue here is the term of art in the descendents of OS/360, which AFAIK has always been spelled "dispatch". >Moreover, while I should ordinarily let 'excrutiating' pass without >comment, No need; if someone replies to one of my messages and sees a spelling error, I expect a correction, although the respondent certainly has no obligation to point it out. I've even been know to thank people for correcting me, although usually for something of more moment. > Moreover again , 'c' and 't'; are prpbably too far from each >other on the keyboard for it to be a typo. As opposed to "o" and "p", whcih are adjacent ;-) My most common spelling error is probably transposition, with one off being the second most common. >If your Old English is up to it, see Chaucer's I thought that was Middle English. >Moreover yet again, my substantive point remains, It remains, and it remains dubious. >Moreover yet again, my substantive point remains, 'SRB' is now used >in two senses that it would be useful to distinguish on the model of >that between a task and a TCB. And, again, the IBM documentation talks about scheduling other control blocks, not just SRB's. That's even imbedded in some macro names. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html