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- From: bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: One OS to rule them all!
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 02:32:51 GMT
- Organization: Efficient Software Internet Service
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- Ross Y Cohen, regarding your message ' One OS to rule them all!' -
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- >Taken from rec.humor.funny:
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- >:
- >:Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, payed me a visit.
- >:As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed
- >:Windows 95 on my PC, I told him how happy I was with this operating
- >:system and showed him the Windows 95 CD. Too my surprise he threw
- >:it into my micro-wave oven and turned on the oven. Instantly I got
- >:very upset, because the CD had become precious to me, but he said:
- >:'Do not worry, it is unharmed.' After a few minutes he took the CD
- >:out, gave it to me and said: 'Take a close look at it.' To my
- >:surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier
- >:than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner
- >:edge of the central hole I saw a inscription, an inscription finer
- >:than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone
- >:piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
- >:
- >:12413AEB2ED4FA5E6F7D78E78BEDE8209450920F923A40EE10E510CC98D444AA08E1324
- >:
- >:'I cannot understand the fiery letters,' I said.
- >:'No but I can,' he said. 'The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode,
- >:but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter
- >:here. But in common English this is what it says:'
- >:
- >: One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
- >: One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
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- Oh, that _is_ GOOD!!!
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- Might make a good basis for an advert or series of adverts for the amiga.
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- As if we'll see any such adverts...
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- ...... Brendan
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- "Occasionally my Universe intersects with Reality"
- - Thompson the Great, c.1996
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