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- From: GAVRON@VESTA.SUNQUEST.COM
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: More on the Caliber of Yoyos in Digital Review
- Message-ID: <920831091255.6b3@VESTA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 16:12:55 GMT
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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- >To: gavron@vesta.sunquest.com
- >Subj: Bill sent me this...
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- >Will you tell Ehud Gavron that he's way out of line. Does he know I was a
- >former Navy Seal? Did I ever tell you about the time I faced down five Ninjas?
- >I'll have you know I added a QIO function modifier to the terminal driver to
- >modify a VAX 11/780 microcode on the fly to do FFT's faster than you could
- >with machine code. Why I've custom machined a barrel connector so my ethernet
- >could run at 15Mhz, the standard ones were just too slow. Didn't use no
- >manchester encoding either Well, gotta go, I'm going to meet some pretty
- >sharp high level people in the computer field, some 'market analysts' from
- >the Gartner group. I don't think either of you have the technical chops to
- >hang with this crowd, and they pull a lot of weight with hotshots like MIS
- >directors, if you get my drift. I'm going to tell them about the time I
- >toggled in a program with a loop containing a sequence of instructions
- >designed to heat the processor in such a way that new traces were formed,
- >creating a VAX CPU that ran up to five times faster. I just want to make
- >sure you folks realize who you're dealing with.
- >
- >Bill Handoncock
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- >
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- Ehud
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- Ehud Gavron (EG76)
- gavron@vesta.sunquest.com
- "The world bores you when you're cool."
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