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- STAR TREK: IN SEARCH OF POWER
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- "Sulu, set path to the root directory and install the ram disk for 320k.
- We're taking her out."
- "Aye, sir."
- "Scotty, I want full power to the megabit ram chips and to the hard
- drives."
- "Captain, yer overloadin' her as it is. The power supply just isn't
- built to take two hard drrrives."
- "Power, Scotty! I want more power! Chekov, install the disk cache.
- Spock, any word on the millions of instructions per second?"
- "Fascinating, Captain. It seems as if the turbo accelerator board is
- overrunning the hard drive, which, due to its poorer response time, is slowing
- down the system performance."
- "Scotty, where is that power!?"
- "Captain, I'm givin ye all she's got. It's that miserable 80986 with the
- 512k bit bus multiplexed down to one pin. The wee beastie has these teeny
- weeny little segments that can only handle so much. You'll have to install
- an extended memory board, do bank switching, and allocate a huge ram disk if
- you want to go any faster."
- "Chekov, install the EMS board."
- "Yes, sir."
- "Uhura, any word from mainframe command?"
- "Well, Captain, we're received several interrupts from the serial port,
- but because we're not multitasking, the data is just sitting there."
- "Scotty, how much longer until we can shift into Unix?"
- "Captain, if ye can squeeze another 60 megabytes onto that hard disk, we
- might have room for Unix and a couple of system utilities. Possibly an
- application. We'll need to increase the clock speed to 28 gigahertz.
- I think we can do it, but there are too many unknowns, too many bugs in the
- system! We'll have to do a proper shakedown."
- "Spock?"
- "Unix is a massive system, Captain, and the commands have to be decoded
- from hieroglyphics invented back in ancient times. It may be more than we
- can handle."
- "Sulu, put in the 60 meg hard drive, install Unix for mouse drive.
- Prepare to go to Task speed on my signal."
- "Mouse drive? ......Aye, Captain."
- "Now! Yes, Bones? What do you want?"
- "Jim, you just have a little spreadsheet work, mailing labels, and some
- word processing. Don't you think you're overdoing it a bit?"
- "Sulu?"
- "Captain, she's shifting into multitasking. Task one. Task two....
- Captain, I'm losing control at the helm. It looks like we've encountered a
- bad sector."
- "Put it on visual, Sulu."
- "Captain, the VGA is not responding, sir. Shifting resolution into EGA
- mode."
- "Spock? What's the problem?"
- "Unknown, Captain. Unix seems to be rerouting all input to a null
- device." Trying 'grep'", now muttering, "whatever that is."
- "Scotty, what's happening with those '/dev' subdirectories?"
- "Captain, she canna take much morrre.... Another fifteen seconds and me
- math chips'll burrrn up for surrre...."
- "Scotty, we're not using the math chip."
- "Sorry, Captain, but I haven't been able to say that for twenty minutes."
- "Uhura, notify mainframe command."
- "Captain, either communications is breaking up, or you're dropping into
- Shakespearean stutter mode again."
- "Captain, she canna take much morrre.... Another fifteen seconds and me
- math chips'll burrrn up for surrre...."
- "Enough Scotty!"
- "Captain! I'm getting a message from mainframe command......
- Apparently, sir, they're going to time-warp previously forgotten modes of
- data handling, it looks like SQL syntax is forming in the language port now."
- "Scotty, quick, pop-up the menu shields. This could be a trick to get us
- back to card punching."
- "I'm sorry, Captain, but Dbase LCXIX doesn't have pop-ups that work yet."
- "Chekov, we need hardcopy! Fire HP LaserJet!"
- "Aye, sir."
- "Bones, how do I see which tasks are active?"
- "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a command shell!"
- "Scotty! Why can't I get a directory on this thing!!?"
- "Captain, ye just canna have a mouse driven pull down menu system with
- Unix. It's like matter and antimatter, the system's too bogged down. Yer
- drainin me quartz crystals."
- "Chekov, report."
- "Captain, the little arrow is responding, but it gets to the side of the
- screen before the windows have a chance to move..."
- "Spock? What's happening to our multitasking?"
- "It appears as if the needs of the one are outweighing the needs of the
- many."
- "Captain, she's not even runnin on reserve now. We'll have to do a
- cold boot for surrre."
- "Bones?"
- "It's dead, Jim."
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- JOKIN' AROUND AGAIN DISK
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- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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