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- From: lowen@lorc.UUCP (Lamar Owen)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.folklore.computers,alt.cascade,alt.best.of.internet
- Subject: Re: Help with XMS mailer on my Game-Boy?
- Message-ID: <0Q6BrAWMBh107h@lorc.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 08:37:56 -0500
- References: <1992Nov12.162326.16772@tolten.puc.cl> <thomasez.23.721422166@dhhalden.no> <1992Nov13.042528.18358@Princeton.EDU>
- Organization: LORC Enterprises
- Lines: 114
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- In <1992Nov13.042528.18358@Princeton.EDU> jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Solomon Weinstein) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov12.162326.16772@tolten.puc.cl> mbfarah@isluga.puc.cl (MIGUEL BRAXTON FARAH) writes:
- >>THOMAS LUNDQUIST (thomasez@dhhalden.no) wrote:
- >>: In article <gunnarh.241.721248782@dhhalden.no> gunnarh@dhhalden.no (GUNNAR HORRIGMO) writes:
- >>: >From: gunnarh@dhhalden.no (GUNNAR HORRIGMO)
- >>: >Subject: Re: Help with XMS mailer on my Game-Boy?
- >>: >Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:53:02 GMT
- >>: >From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
- >>: >Subject: Re: Help with XMS mailer on my Game-Boy?
- >>: >Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:48:42 GMT
- >>: >
- >>: >rbw%apple.com@fico.UUCP (Randy Wong) writes:
- >>: >>dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
- >>: >>>sdoran@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (Steven Marcotte) writes:
- >>: >>>>bgohari@wam.umd.edu (Babak Gohari) writes:
- >>: >>>>>tilden@sportster.ksu.ksu.edu (Tilden-Master of Illogic) writes:
- >>: >>>>>>dlutz@willamette.edu (David Lutz) writes:
- >>: >>>>>>>dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
- >>: >>>>>>>>brat@access.digex.com (Brat Wizard) writes:
- >>: >>>>>>>>>galt%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu writes:
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>Michael Schmahl [Black-Robe Mage] writes:
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu writes
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>22161-bunz writes:
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>Brett G Person writes:
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>smith@ctron.com writes:
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>IronEagle writes:
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Matt Welsh writes:
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Right! I run System V on my VIC-20!
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hmmmm...well, I am getting SVR4 for my HP 48SX.....
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>HA! _I'm_ just finishing up a port of VMS for my Timex Sinclair!
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Top THAT!
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>I'm running NextStep on Atari 2600 Video Game System.
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>Just last night I was able to get Windows to boot on my Sears PONG
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>>game.
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>I am replying to this message with my built-in VAX Mailer on my
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>Game-Boy.
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>I just installed a 10 Gigabyte Drive to handle all the replies!
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>However, it only runs at 230,000 Baud due to the large drive
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>>slowing it down.
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>I fear I will not be getting news any longer... The batteries on my
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>>calculator-watch are running out.
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>My calculator-watch is solar... And if I turned off the lights, NO
- >>: >>>>>>>>>>ONE would be getting news...
- >>: >>>>>>>>>Feh. I'm so slick NASA just awarded ME the TERADATA contract to run on
- >>: >>>>>>>>>my TV remote! They liked my proposal mainly because I'm ALSO able to
- >>: >>>>>>>>>shoehorn in the TEXAS SUPERCOLLIDER computations between commercials!
- >>: >>>>>>>>>Beat THAT!
- >>: >>>>>>>>Well, well, well. SSC calculations, huh. I built a system out of 2
- >>: >>>>>>>>inches of wire, 3 pennies and a AA battery that does realtime
- >>: >>>>>>>>calculations of particle vectors during the Big Bang. A complete
- >>: >>>>>>>>simulation of the first 2 years of the life of the universe, accurate
- >>: >>>>>>>>to the theoretical limit, takes about 5 seconds.
- >>: >>>>>>>And you guys think you are so great. I just spent the last half hour
- >>: >>>>>>>getting X11 to run on my slide rule. I am still having problems
- >>: >>>>>>>connecting it to the net around here, but I would welcome any
- >>: >>>>>>>suggestions.
- >>: >>>>>>So what!!! I'm running Xinitrc, TWMRC, Internet, and 27 muds off of a
- >>: >>>>>>paperclip. Not to mention the fact that I am designing a new form of
- >>: >>>>>>television with 7000 pixels based off a piece of tissue paper. Next!!!
- >>: >>>>>Man, that's baby stuff. I'm running a particle accelerator utilizing
- >>: >>>>>matter-antimatter reactions in my doorknob, and calculating everything in
- >>: >>>>>the fourth dimension using a single dip switch and a large glass of water.
- >>: >>>>Child's play, I have an old piece of cheese that is, at this very moment,
- >>: >>>>raytracing an actual model of the universe five hours from now, while
- >>: >>>>at the same time calculating the heat produced from the new intel
- >>: >>>>Pentium.
- >>: >>>And you people think that you are hackers! I'm currently engaged in a
- >>: >project
- >>: >>>which involves simultaneous simulation of multiple universes (To see what
- >>: >>>would happen if various constants change. Pi=8.4 is an interesting one.) My
- >>: >>>hardware consists of a single wooden pencil (no paper). With it, I can do
- >>: >>>real-time simulations of 2^32 universes in parallel.
- >>: >>You guys are wimps!! I've just finished converting a microwave oven into a
- >>: >>paradimensional teleportation device. The only problem I'm having so far is
- >>: >>that my breakfast bagel keeps disappearing!! May have to eat it raw . . .
- >>: >
- >>: >Sorry, that's my fault. I'm afraid that the high-energy laser-pumped
- >>: >negentropic vortex generator I made from my own nostril hair, which is
- >>: >currently cranking out entire new universes at the rate of 7.6 per picosecond,
- >>: >was breaking the FCC emissions limits and gronking your microwave's control
- >>: >panel. It should work properly now. Also, my cat Arthur was FTPing hundreds
- >>: >of terabytes of PD software from Epsilon Eridani in the year 4741 A.D. over
- >>: >the faster-than-light Ethernet interface I built for him, and this may have
- >>: >been loading the Net a little yesterday. My sincere apologies to everyone who
- >>: >noticed any performance degradation.
- >>:
- >>: Damn, I thought I was doin' smoe really advanced R&D. But I only have a
- >>: humble feather pen with build in spell checking. It checks all languages
- >>: since Adam & Eve plus a few forthcoming languages. But after what I've seen
- >>: here, thats not good enough for a Nobel Price..I have to work harder...
- >>: Maybe some of the languages from outer space will help ?? I just have to
- >>: use my FingerNail Time&Universe Transporter(tm) to get there and learn them.
- >>
- >>You're all a bunch of lazy pseudo-programmers. When you have, as I, set
- >>up an entire University Unix net (with Mail, IRC, more than 2 MUDs, ano-
- >>nymous ftp, etc etc etc etc etc ) on a Turing Machine, we'll talk.
-
- >Hahaha! Fools! You think that's impressive? I've wired together every
- >computer on the Internet with Quantum-Thin Wire (tm), and programmed it
- >to act like a really big abacus. Running 8 x 10^100^10^10^10^4
- >calculations a millisecond, I hope to solve the equation 5x = 10
- >by sometime next week. Now _that's_ progress.
-
- My hack beats all. Simple: I got news running under MS-Windows. Beat that.
- :-)...
-
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- Lamar Owen, Systems Consultant, GE Lighting Systems, Hendersonville, NC
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