[OS X TeX] OT: Ancient things (was: Synchronization)

[David Messerschmitt]

When I was in Oxford, I was told about the small boy getting off the open-air tour bus. In wonderment he told his Dad, "daddy, daddy, there are people living in these ruins!"

-dave

On Apr 16, 2010, at 5:39 AM, David Derbes wrote:

> And don't forget "New College, Oxford"; founded in 1379.
> 
> David Derbes
> U of Chicago Laboratory Schools
> 
> On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 16, 2010, at 4:15 AM, Martin Wilhelm Leidig wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 2010-02-22 um 04.50 schrieb Alain Schremmer:
>>>> On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:53 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>>>> As noted in a later message... He's using an OLD gwTeX based of teTeX.
>>>> 
>>>> What do you mean OLD? My tex is in good company: my house is from 1884. my truck is a young 1998, my mac is a ??? PPC and I am .... forget that.
>>> 
>>> Well, that’s not really old.  My family’s house is documented back to the 14th century (we are entitled to carry shield and spear in defense of the city walls of Kulmbach ;-), I live in a town founded by the Romans in 89 (and made a civitas in 98), my last car was a Saab 900i from 1990 (sold last year, still running), my work Macs are a PB G4 and a PowerMac G5 (and I sometimes use a Quadra 840AV).  Even so I’m using a constantly updated TeXlive 2009.  ;-)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> … with regards from Ladenburg:
>>> 
>>> -MWL-
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> The conception of OLD and NEW are very different in Europe vs. the United States. I remember visiting a small town in England where the NEW Church was built in the 1600s; that would be very OLD in the United States and, most likely, would no longer exist.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
>> 
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David Messerschmitt
Roger Strauch Professor Emeritus
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of Californa at Berkeley
    and
Visiting Professor
Helsinki University of Technology
Software Business Laboratory
   and
Visiting Researcher
SETI Institute