From: garrett@Ingres.COM (It's not what you got, it's what you give)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Help with XMS mailer on my Game-Boy?
Summary: reality
Date: 10 Nov 92 04:06:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: pony.1992Nov10.040608.9419
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Product Division
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <1992Nov4.142833.6589@spock.UUCP>, zaphod@spock.uucp (Matthew Ryan)                           writes...
>In article <komarimf.720760889@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark 'Henry' Komarinski) writes:
>>fpaterra@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Frank Paterra - CTA) writes:
>>
>>>In article <1992Nov2.151917.24271@wam.umd.edu> bgohari@wam.umd.edu (Babak Gohari) writes:
>>>>In article <1d35ppINN7mb@sportster.ksu.ksu.edu> tilden@sportster.ksu.ksu.edu (Tilden-Master of Illogic) writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>In article <Bx019p.D1s@willamette.edu>, dlutz@willamette.edu (David Lutz) writes:
>>>>>>In article <1992Oct31.145009.13015@athena.mit.edu> dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
>>>>>>>In article <BwysHL.ELu@access.digex.com>, brat@access.digex.com (Brat Wizard) writes:
>>>>>>>|> In article <1992Oct30.092529.28581@hellgate.utah.edu> 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, 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.
>>
>>>Yeah, I remember back in elementary when I needed to have water
>>>in the glass to make it work too.  Try a little harder, you can
>>>do all of this with just mildly humid air.
>>
>>Air?  Water?  Glass?  I see you're stuck in the first 100 elements like
>>the rest of these jokers.  When you start using real elements, like..say
>>...Pentium..let me know..then we can talk. :)
>>
>Hmmph!  Still working in only 3 dimensions?  You people are really sad...
>How do you expect to be able to do anything if you can't employ the upper
>dimensions?  I mean, you have known about simple hypercubes for years....
> 
What? Still functioning in reality? No wonder you people are still in
the 20th century?
> 
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