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Trivial Facts

Ella S.

Well-Known Member
The 8086, for which the x86 architecture is named after, is sensibly named so because it came after the 8085. Except the 8085 came after the 8080, and the 8080 came after the 8008.

Most of the numbers are symbolic, and they don't actually correlate with any kind of linear sequence. They're only sequentially larger so that they're sorted by the order of release in an alphabetical listing.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
BOS National marketed its operating system, BOS,
as a competitor to Microsoft's DOS. One reason
it failed is that instead of giving away development
software, it charged an arm & a leg.
This is why no one has ever heard of BOS.
I still use the system I bought in 1986.
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
Humans didn't invent agriculture.

 

exchemist

Veteran Member
Boustrophedonic means a style of writing in which successive lines are to be read in opposite directions, e.g. one line goes left to right while the next goes right to left and so on, as when an ox (βοῦς, from which we get "bovine") turns (στροφή) when ploughing a field. I came across this when visiting la Sainte Chapelle in Paris, in which there is a series of stained glass scenes which are meant to be followed in sequence in a boustrophedonic manner. My wife and I ageed it was a splendidly obscure word to know.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Andor is the best Star Wars series.
(This is factual because it is my opinion.)
It's less geared for children than the others.
 

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
The singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson once had a flat in London, where he let people he knew stay when he wasn't there. In July, 1974, Mama Cass (of the Mamas and Papas), on a gig in London, asked to stay over, and died of a massive heart attack in bed, at aged 32.

Four years later, the great drummer Keith Moon asked to stay. Nilsson didn't want to let him, since he thought it was cursed, gut Pete Townsend convinced him that "lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place." So, on September 7, 1978, Keith Moon died in the exact same bed of a massive drug over-dose, aged 32.
 

libre

In flight
Staff member
Premium Member
The last Mcdonalds cheeseburger sold in Iceland was in 2009, and it is displayed in the National Museum.
Glad to hear Mcdonald's has suffered losses to it's hegemony in parts of Europe.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Starting fluid often has ether.
Some people call it "Cosby juice".

Is it because Bill Cosby has trouble starting engines?
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Cats are redgreen colourblind and nearsighted. They cant see well up close but they do have better side vision then humans and are better at spotting faster movements then us
Seeing distant objects better is farsighted. It's when you can see close up stuff is when it's nearsighted.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
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