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Tafadhali
05-10-06, - 07:21 AM
Topsy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin#Topsy)
A "ragamuffin" young slave girl of unknown origin (she claims to have "just growed"). She was transformed by Little Eva's love. Topsy is often seen as the origin of the pickanniny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickanniny) stereotype of black children.

so the next time you think about saying that to your child maybe you will think twice (http://radioblogclub.com/search/0/jay_dee_think_twice) and recognize the power in words.

Rory
05-10-06, - 07:53 AM
Topsy is a small (~20k machine code) multi-threaded microkernel. It is written in ANSI C and protects kernel threads from user programs. It supports memory management, thread/process control and an IO and driver subsystem. Communication and sychronization is implemented with messages.

Tafadhali
05-10-06, - 08:15 AM
Topsy is a small (~20k machine code) multi-threaded microkernel. It is written in ANSI C and protects kernel threads from user programs. It supports memory management, thread/process control and an IO and driver subsystem. Communication and sychronization is implemented with messages.

are you speaking another language...nice try rory......Bahamians have been refering to these kids before "your topsy" was in existence. im sure your topsy is an acronym for something...

Rory
05-10-06, - 08:27 AM
are you speaking another language...nice try rory......Bahamians have been refering to these kids before "your topsy" was in existence. im sure your topsy is an acronym for something...


I heard the word also used for a dicease .. but never for the other thing ...

no not my oS .. sumone else wrote it .. though it has been around from the early 80's or so . .. i tink .,.