Abacus (was RE: Development ideas)

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@midrange.com wrote:

>  12. RE: Development ideas (Shahan, Ray)
>
>In closing, I'd like to apologize for my less than stellar literary skills,
>and hope that my point has come across effectively and without malice....we
>need to be able to both realize and accept that sometimes, the abacus is the
>best solution.   :-)

This reminds me of contests between adding machines and... ummm... abaci(???) 
years ago where the expert abacus user almost always won in speed tests. So I 
definitely agree with your point.

But, Ray, even so, have you ever tried learning to multiply on an abacus? 
Scalability rears its ugly head quickly.

Tom Liotta

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