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Post #73 by Gorgonops
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateWed, 27 Nov 2013 - 16:51
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/help-noob-building-a-parallel-port-rom-hackstation.29253/
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I used to call it Dimetrodon, but that doesn't fit, that critter is so ancient it's not even a dinosaur.
It's pedantic to point this out I'm sure but despite it's little plastic avatar regularly appearing in sets of dinosaur figures Dimetrodon wasn't a dinosaur, it was in fact a very distant cousin/ancestor of mammals, and predated the first according-to-Hoyle dinosaurs by 40-60 million years.. ;)

(Coincidentally my hostname convention for naming computers was/is in fact based on extinct animals, and I'd usually name PowerPC-based machines running *nix after synapsid/therapsid (mammal-like) reptiles... which lead to horrors like having to memorize how to spell "Estemmenosuchus".)