[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

JohnF john at please.see.sig.for.email.com
Mon Sep 15 23:51:14 EDT 2014


Bill Gunshannon <bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu> wrote:
> [...] at that point in history showing a propensity for use
> of the left hand would likely get you burned at the stake.
> There was a reason why it it was called "sinister".  :-)
> bill

Wow, never made that connection.
Thanks for interesting historical/philological footnote.
f[others']i: dextral=right-to-left, sinistral=left-to-right.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )



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