From: m484443r@edinboro.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Anything you can do...(was: Re: Help with XMS mailer on my Game-boy)
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:28:59 GMT
Organization: Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Nov2.205735.6783@athena.mit.edu>, dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
> In article <1d3q3nINN84c@sam.ksu.ksu.edu>, sdoran@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (Steven Marcotte) writes:
> |> 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! 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 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.
> |> 
> |> 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.

Oh yeah? Well I'M still running VAX/VMS 4.0 and using a DEC vt-100 terminal,
with 2000 blocks alloted to me. And I can still POST!

:P