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- The Better Model
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- Words: (c) Steven Levine, 1983
- Music: Gilbert + Sullivan - The Modern Major General
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- I've built a better model than the one from Data General
- For databases vegetable, animal, and mineral;
- My OS handles CPU's with multiplexed duality,
- My PL/1 compiler shows impressive functionality.
- My storage system's better than magnetic core polarity;
- You needn't even bother checking out a bit for parity;
- There isn't any reason to install non-static floor matting;
- My disk drive has capacity for variable formatting.
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- His disk drive has capacity for variable formatting;
- His disk drive has capacity for variable formatting;
- His disk drive has capacity for variable format-formatting.
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- I feel compelled to mention what I know to be a gloating point;
- There's lots of space in memory for variables floating point,
- Which shows for input vegetable, animal, and mineral,
- I've built a better model than the one from Data General.
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- Which shows for input vegetable, animal, and mineral,
- He's built a better model than the one from Data General.
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- The IBM new home computer's nothing more than germinal,
- At Prime they still have trouble with an interactive terminal;
- While Tandy's done a lousy job with operations Boolean,
- At Wang the byte capacity's too small to fit a coolie in.
- Intel's mid-year finances are something of the trouble sort;
- The Timex-Sinclair crashes when you implement a bubble sort;
- All DEC investors soon will find they haven't spent their money well;
- And need I even mention Nixdorf, Univac, or Honeywell?
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- And need he even mention Nixdorf, Univac, or Honeywell?
- And need he even mention Nixdorf, Univac, or Honeywell?
- And need he even mention Nixdorf, Univac, or Honey-Honeywell?
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- By striving to eliminate all source code that's repetitive
- I've brought my benchmark standings to results that are competitive.
- In short, for input vegetable, animal, and mineral,
- I've built a better model than the one from Data General.
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- In short, for input vegetable animal, and mineral,
- He's built a better model than the one from Data General.
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- In fact, when I've a Winchester of minimum diameter,
- When I can call a subroutine of infinite parameter,
- When I can point to registers and keep their current map around,
- And when I can prevent the need for mystifying wraparound,
- When I can update record blocks with minimum of suffering,
- And when I can afford to use a hundred K for buffering,
- When I've performed a matrix sort and tested the addition rate,
- You'll marvel at the speed of my asynchronous transmission rate.
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- You'll marvel at the speed of his asynchronous transmission rate.
- You'll marvel at the speed of his asynchronous transmission rate.
- You'll marvel at the speed of his asynchronous transmission-mission rate.
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- Though all my better programs that self-reference recursively
- Have only been obtained through expert spying, done subversively,
- But still, for input vegetable, animal, and mineral,
- I've built a better model than the one from Data General.
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- But still, for input vegetable, animal, and mineral,
- He's built a better model than the one from Data General.
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