From: ngibbins@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Nick Gibbins)
Subject: Re: Help with XMS mailer on my Game-Boy?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:26:16 GMT

In article <25836@optima.cs.arizona.edu> hogue@cs.arizona.edu (Justin C. Hogue) writes:
>In article <Bx7FsD.6AJ.1@cs.cmu.edu> nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes:
>.Randy Wong writes:
>..Daniel M Silevitch writes:
>...Steven Marcotte writes:
>....Babak Gohari writes:
>.....Tilden-Master of Illogic writes:
>......David Lutz writes:
>...... Daniel M Silevitch writes:
>........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! TopTHAT!
>..............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 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!
>........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, accuarate 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 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 pixiles based off a piece of
>......tissue paper.  Next!!!
>.....Man, that's baby stuff.  I'm running a particle accelerator
>.....utilizing anti- matter-matter 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
>...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.
>...guys are whimps!!  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 . . .
>
>.So _that's_ why my basement is filling up with bagels. Luckily,
>.decomposing bagels are an ideal platform for running my new Usenet
>.cascade simulator. I was planning to model flatworm behaviour, but the
>.level of intelligence isn't high enough.
>>
>.Nick Haines nickh@cmu.edu
>
>Ha! I'm running a program to prove that one can indeed surpass the speed of
>light on a piece of scab from an old bycicle crash wound.  Furthermore, it 
>figured out the density of stars after they collapse into a black hole, but
>the number is too big to post here.
Very nice. Now could one of you guru-types give me a hand? I'm having trouble 
getting Xwindows to run on my working replica of Babbage's Analytical Engine...
- Nick


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