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- From: rycohen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ross Y Cohen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: One OS to rule them all!
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 06:19:42 GMT
- Organization: UB
- Message-ID: <4j5dtu$7r5@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>
- References: <4ipe8i$6o7@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> <2261.6658T845T2826@es.co.nz>
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- In article <2261.6658T845T2826@es.co.nz>, NeuroMancer <bthompx@es.co.nz> wrote:
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- >Ross Y Cohen, regarding your message ' One OS to rule them all!' -
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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:
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- >>:12413AEB2ED4FA5E6F7D78E78BEDE8209450920F923A40EE10E510CC98D444AA08E1324
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- >>:'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
- >
- >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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- After posting this I was surprised that there were hardly any
- follow-ups, because I thought it was the funniest thin I'd seen
- in week. I was beginning if having a working knowledge of
- Tolkien's works dates a person.
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- Ross.
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