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ok, Windows 10 with some glitch that makes all my windows FULLSCREEN and has disabled resizing any of them and some later, but still too old to update, version of Ubuntu where i do my programming on baseball stats with cut, sort, awk and c.Edited by xongsmith, : comma-tose

dwise1 writes: i hope that you did catch what the ASCII code for '*' was from the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy series when the computer answered "What's Life and The Universe and Everything?" with "42".My first "computer" was a TI-50. You could program up to 50 steps into a program and run it. It also had the usual side scientific calculator keys. But one of the possible program steps was "NOP" which did nothing (No Operation). With the Fisher-Spassky World Title fresh in my mind then, I programmed a chess clock that showed the seconds left for each player, separated by a decimal point in the display. The second was made by a certain number of NOP steps in a row that took time to do nothing, then, according to who's turn it was, decrement the display by 0001.0000 or by 0000.0001. There were other distractions on that little machine.

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