Another advsys enjoyer! Did you ever write a game with it?

but not command.com

Did you teach the UBC CS systems programming course in 1985?

Yes i did.

I was likely one of your students. I took the course around then, but don't have my records accessible. It was definitely worthwhile going to the low-level.

You undoubtedly were in my class if you did it in 1985, and I am glad you got value from it.

Also varies by region in the US for referring to highways. In Southern California it is usually "the I-5" while on the other coast you will hear a plain "I-95".

In Northern California it's also just "5" "880" etc. We can pick out Southern Californians by their use of the pronoun.

If you want to show your geographical sophistication within California, you can safely refer to "80" (I-80 passes through only the northern part of the state) and "the 10" (which passes only through the southern part). As for "5" vs. "the 5" just make sure that if you're heading south you've switched by the time you reach the Grapevine (q.v.).

I'm not sure where the N/S dividing line is, though. Any HN readers from Bakersfield or Coalinga?

I think Americans have the most variety of names for roads - kind of like the Inuit have many ways to talk about snow.

Parkway, Freeway, Highway, Tollway, Expressway, Interstate, Byway, etc

>In Southern California it is usually "the I-5"

in LA it's most definitely "the 5" and state highways are also named with their numbers with no distinguishing. it's all "the N"

I’m from Arizona and I don’t think this is settled law here. I’m just as likely to say the 10, the I-10, or just I-10.

In Colorado, people tend to say "The I" and the automatic assumption is I-25. At least if you live on the front range anyway, which 80% of the state does.

A little less derogatory, in my estimation.

I (West Coast) pretty much entirely associate "all-dressed" with potato chips.

Dressed all over, zesty mordant, and gelapenno.

The goalie trinity right there

Save me some of those sweet empowered chicken things https://youtu.be/Jfq3c4Cf1Fs?si=pl5Q0Q1bJb8rP2br

As a West Coaster, I had to look up nearly every term in this article. As usual, "Canadian" almost entirely means the central/east areas.

It's just like "aboot" and milk in bags.

I (US) also associate "all-dressed" with potato chips since we started getting them down here.

I'm pleased to see some of the Chinook jargon is there.

Skookum as frig!

Actually they should just watch a few AvE videos, he’s a goldmine for old Canadian lingo.

I still use "saltchuck" when I'm distracted. Confuses the heck out of Californians.

I've seen Chinook words used in California, both in place names and businesses. Skookum, Siwash, Tyee, etc.

Definitely less common than in BC/WA/OR though.

Klahowya tillicum!

Skoden

It made some inroads in to BC in the 80s, mostly thanks to Bob and Doug McKenzie, but never really stuck.

Apparently originated in Australia, though it is definitely an established usage in Canada. I seem to recall hearing that usage in Vancouver in the 90s.

https://gikken.co/mate-translate/blog/from-darts-to-cigarett...

MathCAD? TK!Solver?

I just went through the Internet Archive's issues of MacWorld from back in the day and think I found the software.

On page 9 (10 in the archive) of the April 1988 issue there is an advert for Eureka: The Solver by Borland International (Of course! They had such excellent software for years.)

There is a writeup about it on pages 191-192 (pages 192-193 in the archive).

One of the tools available is a polynomial finder. That is the tool that I used.

I will look around to see whether I still have the disk.

I should still have my MathCAD disks somewhere. That wasn't the application though. I recognize TK!Solver too but I don't think it was that software.

I may need to scan old MacWorld magazine images to find it.

Maple?

No it wasn't Maple. I'm familiar with Maple. I found it by following ads in MacWorld magazine back in the day. It should be identifiable by checking issues between December 1984 and May 1987.

https://archive.org/details/macworld-magazine has the scans

Thank you for the link. I'm pretty sure I found it in the Internet Archive's issues of MacWorld from back in the day.

On page 9 (10 in the archive) of the April 1988 issue there is an advert for Eureka: The Solver by Borland International (Of course! They had such excellent software for years.)

There is a writeup about it on pages 191-192 (pages 192-193 in the archive).

One of the tools available is a polynomial finder. That is the tool that I used.

I will look around to see whether I still have the disk.

I also found my favorite, and first computer game since it was my first computer.

Silicon Beach Software put out a game called Airborne! in 1984. I got the Mac in January 1985 and bought that game with it. Fun stuff!

Thanks for the help.

Thanks. I'll dig through and see what I can find or dig through my disk archive.

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/37630-eureka-the-solver has a .sit

The author's page: http://www.spinstop.com/roger/eureka.htm