Interesting. The IIs and early Macs were great hardware. Still, I always liked the software the best ... until they stopped supporting it (e.g. Hypercard).
But the hardware? The very first Mac I actually owned, a iiSi, was designed to suck the air for the fan through the slot for the $400 3.5" floppy. Wonder why it died? (The iivx quietly fixed that with a $1 piece of plastic.) ($400 was worth more 30 years ago... it could buy a dozen non-Apple floppies. When the mouse died I called them to get a replacement switch. 'We don't sell parts,' the support guy told me. 'Besides, it's only an $80 mouse.')
Later on I had heavily invested in external music hardware that worked with the serial port ... then that port just went away, no warning. I switched to a Power clone ... no failures for 7 years. Then I took a chance on an iMac. First the hard drive kept forgetting its partitions. Then, less than a year later, the screen started developing vertical color streaks; when hundreds of other users complained about the same problem on their forum, they shut down the forum. No options, out of warranty. Fool me twice ...
That's using it as a [verb] [noun], not a gerund. If you are using it as a open compound word (or a gerund) - the "boiling water" IS in a boiling state.
IME, in prose writing, arguing with LLM can help a newer writer to gather 'the facts' (to help with research) and 'the objections to the facts' (same result) to anticipate an initial approach to the material. This can save a lot of organizational time. After which, newer writer can more confidently approach topics in their own voice.
No more so than anywhere else.
The primary reason was Oxbridge blocked the attempts at forming universities elsewhere and the early centralisation of state authority aided them in this.
There were several other universities in England in the middle ages but none survive.
Stamford is one.
Northampton founded in 1261 but was banned in 1265 due to a mix of its patron having become an enemy of the King and Oxford supporters taking advantage of it.
When the local polytechnic wanted to become a uni in the early 2000s they had to specifically request it be repealed.
As does Tranquility Reader, if you're interested only in the primary content of the page ... and, usually, in a much smaller footprint ... with a PDF option.
1. People using TTY's used black ink on very-light-yellow roll paper, or
2. Those lucky enough to have ADM-3 VDT's often chose light green or light orange on black.
Just sayin.
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT220#/media/File:DEC_VT220_te...
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