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He made the story up. When confronted with the fact that units didn't convert some of the units from his story his response was essentially "Oh yeah, well of co
by searealist 3y ago
He made the story up. When confronted with the fact that units didn't convert some of the units from his story his response was essentially "Oh yeah, well of course I always supplemented my units definitions on all my machines with obscure units.".
- Cyphase 3y agoDo you have a source for that? EDIT: #19 here https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
- searealist 3y agoCheck his own FAQ.
- vore 3y agoI don't think that's enough evidence to claim he made the whole story up.
- chungy 3y agoThese potential anachronisms are easy to insert when retelling a story. It doesn't really mean he "made it up", but reverse engineering how the diagnostic was determined might lead one to use tools/definitions that didn't exist at the time. It's also entirely plausible that a local definitions file was used to provide the unit that didn't come in the default install. Hence the anachronism is merely "potential" instead of "definite"