Re: Towards consensus on document format

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:05:13PM -0700, David Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> > > I'd love to see you trapped in a basement after an earthquake with
> > > only a stick trying to remember how to tap S-O-S. 
> > 
> > That's easy. Three shorts and three longs, repeat until the water covers your
> > shoes.
> 
> As was said ... who can remember .... 
>     three dots,  three dashes *AND* three dots ... pause and repeat

There was a great demonstration on a morning TV show a few months ago
where they had two amateur radio operators racing against two people
using a cell phone to send SMS messages, to see who could send a
message faster from one person to another.  The cell phone texters
could use all of the standard text message abbrevations with the T9
input methods; and they had the advantage of using a cell phone
keyboard with 12 buttons versus the radio operator's paddles.

Guess who won?

The morse code operators, of course, by a wide margin.

Some times the old fashioned technology is the best.   :-)

				- Ted
				  (who is still using Emacs, not some
				  fancy/shmancy WYSIWYG GUI tool to
				  compose this message.  :-)

P.S.  And I sometimes still use /bin/ed (which yes, will work on a
teleprinter, to edit system files in single user mode; what's wrong
with teleprinters anyway?  I get most of my most productive work done
using an xterm, which is really nothing more than a glass tty....  :-)
_______________________________________________
Ietf mailing list
Ietf@xxxxxxxx
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

[Index of Archives]     [IETF Annoucements]     [IETF]     [IP Storage]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux SCTP]     [Linux Newbies]     [Fedora Users]