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As recorded in the Ancient book of Demons
I, Michael do hereby transcribe and attest
the following to be true as originally
written.
Know Ye WHO are weak of heart, and frail of
body READ NO FURTHER.
The Ancient programmer toiled day and night, the vision
of a bug free program consumed his every waking moment.
All things of pleasure were put aside. His beautiful
young wife and 9 children were ignored. Life was only the
program. The bits, the bytes, the strings, and the syntax,
all this had become his life. But he was not with out hope
for in times past, others such as him had toiled long and
hard, but always the reward would come. SHARE WARE, SHARE
WARE, the magical incantation that many a programmer and
wizards of the byte had earned there just dues. It was not
the small pittance of gold they sought, but the meager means
to continue there mystical profession.
At last as the winter wings of his life blew, a time of rest
appeared on the horizon for the Ancient programer. The bugs
were gone, the compiler was quiet. A lass it was time to reap
the meager harvest of his meg a byte crop.
But all was not right in the homes of the hackers and the
users. Time had past and some hackers and users had changed.
The darkness of the parity error had seduced them. They
succumbed to the type O and the bad command. They had
forgotten there teachings, the darkness closed in, there bus
cards slowly warped. For they no longer listened to the
teaching of the OLD Z80. The object, the honesty of the SHARE
WARE concept no longer lingered in the heart of there
individual CPU's.
Upon hearing of this evil with in his beloved community the
Ancient programmer laughed, for he new, and believed in his
fellow users. Even to the last he was heard saying " keep the
faith young wife, I believe in SHARE WARE, and the Great CPU
teachings." "My program will earn us enough to keep the
children feed and electricity in the computer." He never
doubted he believed they would never allow the power company
to turn off his beloved little 286 CPU.
But it came to pass, the users forgot, they used his program
and NEVER REGISTERED or paid the small fee. They passed it
among there friends, it was enjoyed, and used. Every version
of DOS commanded it. Never once was the Ancient programmer
thought of.
Then that faithful day came, and with out tribute to pay the
Ancient programers power was turned off. The ancient
programmer stood by, heart broken and disillusioned as his
beautiful beloved CPU cooled off, all his hopes and dreams
were lost as the Ram Disk disappeared. All was lost he never
programed again. His wife and 9 children left him.
Some members of the computer village still had no remorse.
But then a quiver of fear could be felt, all was not right.
Bits were missing, power surges were destroying memory. Hard
Disks begin crashing. Those who abused SHARE WARE tried to
repent by making back ups, but the time of repentance was
past.
Then the lights dimmed, and dark clouds covered there
computers and the All electrons and the power of the GREAT
CPU spoke forth:
CHILDREN OF THE ELECTRON I THE GREAT CPU
FORGIVE YOU FOR NOT FOLLOWING THE TEACH-
INGS OF SHARE WARE - BUT NEVER AGAIN WILL I
ALLOW YOU TO TURN OFF ONE SUCH AS THE
ANCIENT PROGRAMMER.
KNOW YE ONE AND ALL, RESPECT THE SHARE WARE
PRINCIPLE OR BEWARE, IF YOU VALUE YOUR DISK
AND RAM, FOR ANY WHO DO NOT RESPECT THE
SHARE WARE WILL SURELY LOOSE ALL !!!
SIGNED
MICHAEL HUSKEY
TRANSCRIBER FOR THE GREAT CPU
WITNESSED
RICHARD LEW
POWER USER AND KEEPER OF THE TRUE FAITH