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by virginwidow 497 days ago
Ignore this remark if irrelevant

But f00kin'AYE on wget.

I can't say for certain (please pard0n) but if there was anyway to (ya, right) find we'd learn way back when 'AutoCad' was originaly built (and for) UNIX.

Because LISP (Lost In Stupid Parentheses) was an emacs dealio, Richard Stahlman stuff but I suspect even before Torvalds built Linux...

When 8086/88 machines went viral there was a (hardware) limit <640K (kb) RAM.

To escape this we used 'PharLap' to make a 16mb (megabytes) Ramdisk look like "REAL" to Autocad...

It'd be amusing to know how the UNIX app was ported to 8086/88 (before 'Windows' 3)

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Turns out that wget is still great for spidering.