Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection

From: Clockmeister <*clockmeister_at_internode.on.net*> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:34:22 +0800 Message-ID: <5357189E.8060001@internode.on.net> · clockmeister_at_internode.on.net

On 23/04/2014 9:15 AM, MikeS wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clockmeister" 
> <clockmeister@internode.on.net>
> To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection
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>>> Pshaw! That's why the Americans invented Vise Grips!
>>>
>>
>> Heh ;-)
>>
>>> Can't please some people; complain about the Yanks using the (British)
>>> *Imperial* system, and still complain when they try to make you 
>>> happy by
>>> switching to metric...
>>>
>>> Bet you don't have those odd Torx-like bits/sockets they use in 
>>> Audis and
>>> Mercs either, for example...
>>>
>>
>> I do as a matter of fact, and there is nothing odd about them.
>
> There is in the US ;-)
>

Given that you have plenty of European cars driving around in the US, as 
well as being a product of US manufacturing industry conglomeration I 
beg to differ ;-)

> What are they called, BTW?
>

We call them Torx bits/sockets but they are also known as star 
bits/sockets in other places.

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