From: clef@aber.ac.uk (Phillip Curtis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Help with XMS-Mailer on my Game-Boy !
Date: 10 Dec 92 12:01:28 GMT
Organization: University of Wales - Aberystwyth - Prifysgol Cymru

In article <1992Dec8.155029.9369@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
   pvs9@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Praktikum Verteilte Systeme) burbled:

>In article <ByxIw5.56p@world.std.com>, paladin@world.std.com (Thomas G 
>Schlatter) writes :
>]In article <20012.2b16715a@ul.ie> relihanl@ul.ie (Liam Relihan - CSIS Dept. -
>] UL) writes:
>]>In article <1992Nov23.214307.1625@ncar.ucar.edu>, rsc@hao.ucar.edu (Bob 
>]Campbell) writes:
>]>> In article <Bxrp95.DIC@cen.ex.ac.uk>, cs92mjd@cen.ex.ac.uk (M.J.Davis) 
>]writes:
>]>>> Jacob Solomon Weinstein writes:
>]>>>    |Matt Welsh writes:
>]>>>    |>Brian Cash writes:
>]>>>    |>>Peter /\/\odin writes:
>]>>>    |>>|>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.
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>]>Errr...who am I ?
>]>-- 
>]Pikers, one and all. It only takes me 3.5 seconds to simultaneously
>]compute Pi and e COMPLETELY, cross-translate every known work
>]of literature into ALL languages (including ^t\PJ~ and sfdlkj), 
>]and compute the weather in the year 4859 with a .000005% margin
>]of error on a piece of bellybutton lint.
>
>Hmmm, VERY good. But quite impractical. I do not need any external hardware
>at all ! Having found out the human brain's machine code, I have (as I have
>already told you once ago) installed a Mach system with X-Windows, 42 LPMuds,
>sophisticated animation and ray-tracing software and other amazing stuff, in
>my head ! Meanwhile, I have found a way to send mail and post news telepathic-
>ally without employing any hardware (however, I still have problems with
>receiving data that way). Currently, I am hard at work reverse-engineering
>the natural software of my brain -- unfortunately, no existing non-biological
>computer seems to be powerful enough to run this on it.
>By the way : the Mach system I have installed, though it is *really* large,
>does hardly consume 0.1% of the brain's resources (at the maximum load I
>had so far in normal operation -- a fork bomb, however, will use up all it 
>can get, which in this case causes a terrible headache).


And if you try telling that to young people today,
	they won't believe you!

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