Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-15 Thread Rhino
ourse, we are talking about a time when computers were absolutely immense, ran on vacuum tubes (the transistor hadn't been invented yet) and filled very large rooms - and yet probably had less computing power than the average microwave oven you can buy today. Only very large companies or

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-15 Thread Rhino
uters > > Bye. I stand corrected; I understated the world market by 2 units and was 4 years late in my guesstimate for the timing of the quote :-) Oh well, not bad for something I read 10 years ago Rhino -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-16 Thread Rhino
"John W. Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rhino wrote: > > Everyone > > else was still using typewriters - which was IBM's bread and butter in those > > days - for their business needs. > > Oh dear, no. Not quit

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-05 Thread Rhino
t supporting functional > programming? > What does any of this have to do with Java? -- Rhino -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: dynamic drawing in web page

2006-05-21 Thread Rhino
e so that you can get a rough idea of how much code is necessary to do what you want. In your case, you might want a single applet with several distinct canvases for drawing or a separate applet for each canvas; either way could probably work. -- Rhino -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list