HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Subject: Re: Bumper Sticker
Reply-To: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:12:52 GMT


In article <9210011946.AA26374@teetot.acusd.edu>, gs@TEETOT.ACUSD.EDU
(Greg Simon) writes:
|> 
|> >     Seen on a car last weekend:
|> >
|> >          I <heart> DOS
|> 
|> What version of DOS are they refering to ???

Probably the 360 one.  The subject of possibly the most impossible
question I've ever had in a job interview (this one at IBM Hursley
Labs in Winchester): "If we gave you a document set for DOS and told
you to sit down with it, what would you do?"

Note, this was 1967.  I got a job offer, which I didn't take up...
--
Robin (dump Brian Kay) Fairbairns                    rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: dirty tricks
Date: 6 Oct 1992 13:48:43 GMT
Organization: SunConnect
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.france.sun.com



> >>I used to change the parity and baud rate on our vt220 terminals
> >>in our lab.  When turned on, they responded with gibberish and 
> >>the normal "idiot newbie" responded by trying to find another
> >>terminal.  I never waited for a terminal after I started doing this.
> >>
.

In similar vein, but self-inflicted...

When we got out first VAX at the University one of my friends was delighted
to see that you could change the line speed, which hadn't been possible
with the older ICL machines.

The lines all defaulted to 300baud, so he tried:
SET TERM/SPEED=1200,
enter setup & change terminal speed. It worked, so next came:

SET TERM/SPEED=2400,
enter setup & change terminal speed. It also worked, so

SET TERM/SPEED=3600,
enter setup & discover that the next available speed on the terminal was
4800...

he finally had to phone the computer centre & grovel to get it put back.
They didn't know you could change the speed, but fortunately that was in the
days before VMS allowed them to lock the speed setting.

Steve


-- 
Steve McKinty
SUN Microsystems ICNC
38240 Meylan, France
email: smckinty@france.sun.com	   BIX: smckinty
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From: andrew@mks.com (Andrew Hamilton-Wright)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: You know when you're hacking too long when...
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:41:53 GMT
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

In article <y18JRB6w164w@lorc.UUCP> lowen@lorc.UUCP (Lamar Owen) writes:
>person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) writes:
>> I keep anting to re-direct my alarm(3C) output to a file so that I can
>> play it back later when I get up!  I have been hacking too long.
>> Sometimes, if I'm real tired, I want to re-direct to the null device!
>
>When my alarm goes off in the morning (5:15AM!!!), I keep wanting to press
>the Decrement Program Counter switch on the frontpanel.
>
>> Brett Person
>
yesterday morning, when it went off, I calculated is as KiloBytes full of
a Max 1200   . . .   and was trying to figure out where to backup to 
as I got out of bed.

-- 
    /||  // // ,'/""\'   Andrew Hamilton-Wright  andrew@mks.com  (519)884-2251 
   / ||/// //\' `\\\     Database(Admin),        Mortice Kern Systems Inc.
  /  |/ /_//  \\___/     56 Scottsdale, Guelph,Ont.   
o/ "Everything is possible except skiing through a revolving door"
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From: pdt@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Peter David THOMPSON)
Subject: Linking and loasding (was Re: That darn Bug story)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 01:56:36 GMT

peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <26322@castle.ed.ac.uk> ercm20@festival.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson) writes:
>> Edinburgh's EMAS (1972 - 1992, R.I.P.) did something like this.  All
>> references were indirect via a table built at load-and-run time.

>Oh, while I'm sitting here: the Amiga dynamically links all binaries on
>loading. That way they all share a common address space. It doesn't do
>dynamic linking for libraries, though, since they're opened explicitly at
>run-time and may be flushed from memory if nobody happens to have them
>open at a particular time.
>-- 
>Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
  Pardon?
  The Amiga does *relocation* at load time. The default on all C compilers
that I'm aware of is for static linking. DICE supports dynamic linking
via a shared runtime library called dynamic.library, but I'm not aware
of any similar facilities in any other compiler (I can't afford any other
compiler).
  The Amiga (or to be more precise, the standard operating system for the
Amiga) also relocates libraries on opening.
  If this is a new feature of Kickstart 3.0, it seems to be a good reason
for an upgrade..

* These opinions belong to pdt@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU unless otherwise specified.
         Perform Random Postings And Senseless Acts Of .signature.
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From: klein@frith.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Oldest BIFF posting?
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:50:57 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University College of Stunt Piloting

When was the first posting by BIFF posted?  Surley
a historical date in the history of USENET.

-- 
Jeff Klein             | "Happily, Ral doffs his outer clothing for a
Browsing Boy of the LNH|  refreshing dip in one of the dangerous 
klein@frith.egr.msu.edu|  chemical vats." - Ty Templeton 
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From: jeremy@sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)
Subject: Re: MDL
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
Date: 30 Sep 92 07:57:06 GMT

In <8em6K2C00YV9A1kfYt@andrew.cmu.edu> Samuel Roy Helwig <sh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>    Does anyone in this group remember MDL (muddle)?  I was told that
>the original Adventure was written in it.  It seems that it was an
>interactive fiction game language.  Is this true?  Also, I was told that
>the Infocom text-based games were written in a language based on a
>subset of MDL.  Finally, if anyone has the original Adventure source (in
>MDL) or anything else in MDL, I'd like to look at it.

I suspect that MDL is very old.  There is a newer system, ADL (Adventure
Definition Language), which I think is based on MDL.  ADL is a lispy
language that's quite easy to do things in.  It comes with a few
sample adventures, and its not particualarly difficult to work with.
I cowrote a lift with 4 floors which the player could use, as well as the
computer controlled security guard who wandered about.  There were numerous
details that got the button press/lift arrival right.  It only took a few
hours one morning between about midnight and 7.

	J

--
jeremy@sw.oz.au ph:+61 2 698 2322-x122 fax:+61 2 699 9174
The pumpkin.  The sheep.  My brother's wife.
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From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
Subject: Re: dirty tricks
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 16:32:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.081915.26436@gu.uwa.edu.au> john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West) writes:
>johnm@metro (John McKirdy) writes:
>
>>One of my pet hates is people leaving terminals unattended.
>>I have occassionally changed their login scripts to set the prompt to
>>    Do not forget to log out>
>>but found out some of the naive users hit by this didn't know what was
>>going on and couldn't change it back.  It didn't work anyway, so now I
>>just walk by.
>
>We have a little program called 'shame', written specially for people like
>that. When runs, it sends some nasty mail to the user, adds their name to
>a file, and logs them out. (The program to display the list of offenders
>is called hinch. Australian readers should be able to figure out why)
>
Here we send a mail message saying something like 'we could have deleted
everything in your account'.  

What usually 'stumps' the users of our Sun Sparcstations is that you first
'exit' out of X windows, and then you must exit out of your account.  Many
forget the second exit. :\  Or we have the idiots who pick 'exit' from the
window manager menu, thinking it exits them out of their account, when it
only kills the window manager.  I have no sympathy to those who repetivly
do this (after I've told them several times).  
-- 
<<                                                               >>
<< Michael R. Brown    CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ >>
<< Internet: michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu                            >>
<< BitNet: m_brown@fauvax                                        >>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Empty boxes (was Re: DEC Part numbers) 
From: mdh@gaya.gp.co.nz (Martin D. Hunt)
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:33:03 +1200
Distribution: world
Organization: Wellington, New Zealand

In article <3741267@zl2tnm.gen.nz>, don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
>
> Ah, the "empty filler box, part #xxxxx".  Or the mysterious "cronel", 
> (part #yyyyy) which usually (on elimination of everything else) turns out
> to be bubble wrap used to fill gaps that are too small for empty filler 
> boxes....
> 
> Hmmm -- I don't think I've seen "cronel" on the BOMs recently.
> 
No, I don't think I have either. They seem to have taken to filling the 
space with screwed up brown paper - I'm not sure what the part number for 
that is.
-- 
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From: mnelson@bitbucket.cis.udel.edu (Mark Nelson)
Subject: Re: Lillith
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:14:03 GMT

In article <20793@plains.NoDak.edu> person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) writes:
>Whatever happened to Wirth's Lillith machine that Pournelle was
>forever writing about in the  early to mid-80's 
>
>I know it was just Pournelle, but the blurbs he wrote about the
>machine made it sound real interesting. 
>-- 
In 1986 I worked at CERN (a high energy physics lab) outside of Geneva,
Switzerland.  The group I was working with had a half-dozen Lilliths
sitting in the corner, unused.  I played with them a little, and they
had a reasonable (for the time) b/w display (768x512 ? portrait) and
a nice Modula-2 development environment.  Unfortunately, their hard
disks (10 meg removable?) were horribly unreliable, which is why we
had abandoned them.  We were using PC/ATs instead.  Sigh...

-- 
This function is occasionally useful as an argument to other functions
which require functions as arguments.-- Guy Steele Jr. CLTL

Mark Nelson                                        mnelson@cis.udel.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Connection Machine posters (was Re: Mean-looking iron: design decision or just cool stuff?)
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 11:37:48 GMT

In article <1apkvcINN8ci@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
> Sorry, but we don't have posters to send to the general public.  Only a
> limited number of CM5 posters were produced.

Sounds like CM posters could be an additional profit center for the company.

>                                               If you have a dying child
> whose last wish is a CM5 poster, we should be able to accomodate you

Don't you know that's an urban legend... he wants to collect the most ring
pulls for the dying kid in the next bed...
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   "Oletko halannut suttasi tnn?"
  'U`  
Kunt u mij de weg wijzen naar het dichtstbijzijnde intelligente zoogdier?
From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Bumper Sticker
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:57:42 GMT
Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA

>In article <1992Oct2.091252.16662@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
>
>>Probably the 360 one.  The subject of possibly the most impossible
>>question I've ever had in a job interview (this one at IBM Hursley
>>Labs in Winchester): "If we gave you a document set for DOS and told
>>you to sit down with it, what would you do?"
>
In article <BvI89L.GIt@rice.edu> adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:
>Hire a forklift?  Rent a bigger apartment?  Run screaming?
>

    Nah....just take the document set into the "throne room" and
    use it for its ONLY suitable purpose.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: "Any" key
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 09:15:34 GMT

robm@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool) writes:

>Speaking of that, I always get a kick out of taking the keyboard off of the
>  computer completely, and trying to boot, with the message "Keyboard error,
>  press <F1> to resume".... as if I'm going to be able to press F1 without 
>  the keyboard.

Well, I guess the error-handling routine isn't written very well, because I
tried it, and when I pressed F1 on my disconnected keyboard, the computer
*didn't* resume; it just stayed frozen.

-- 
Keith_Lim@sfu.ca   Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
Hon Cog Sci; Min Psyc; Forum; Senate; CDSU; URC; ASC; FARSIDE; LEAD; CCCS
I officially represent each and every one of the above bodies--NOT!

"Perhaps you're just different. It's not a sin, you know--though you may
 have heard otherwise."                     --Tam Elbrun, ST:TNG "Tin Man"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Bumper Sticker
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 01:00:02 GMT

haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:
>One of my prized possessions (well, I think it's still here somewhere) is
>a bumper sticker that says

>     HONK IF YOU LOVE JCL

It must be pretty quiet around you, I would think.

Besides, shouldn't that be:

//HORN.SYSIN DD *
	HONK
/*

(Scary that I still remember that shit - I have'nt touched JCL in 5 glorious
years)
//GO.SYSIN DD *
DO DAH
DO DAH
/*

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com
(This is not an official opinion/statement of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"Ok dear, want me to call the bike shop and see if they'll sponsor your
mid-life crisis?" "Yeah.  Ask them if they'll upgrade my shifters, too"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.urban
From: J.Newman@icarus.curtin.edu.au (John Newman)
Subject: Re: Floor numbering
Organization: Computing Centre, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:17:54 GMT


> I have also occasionally seen 0 (zero), -1 (minus 1,
> zero being skipped as in AD/BC years)
>

At a hotel in Sorrento, Italy, one of the lift levels
is at about -20.
The hotel is built on a 200 foot ocean cliff. The lift 
shaft goes straight down through solid rock to the beach.


   3
   2
   1
   Lobby
---------------- cliff top  
   |
   |
   |
   |
   |
   S (Spaggia)          
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ocean beach (about -20)


(I would hate the power to fail when at about -10.)


/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
\ John Newman              J.Newman@icarus.curtin.edu.au /
/ Computing Centre,           "There is less to this     \
\ Curtin University,            than meets the eye."     /                         
/ Perth, Western Australia     - Tallulah Bankhead       \
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
From: infidel@gl.pitt.edu (todd j. derr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: you know you've been hacking too long...
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:17:42 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh CIS

... when you can't wake up in the morning because you forgot to push a
return address on the stack the night before.

(never believed that this YNYBHTL stuff was true until that happened.)




-- 
todd j. derr - the c.o.m.a. moderator!  
infidel+@pitt.edu       (412) 363-9027   
infidel@pittunix (BIT)  work: 648-1247
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Anybody have the true story behind...
Date: 26 Sep 92 17:09:30 GMT
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario

I remember reading a while back the true story behind the old 'Mariner probe
misses Mars because of . instead of a , in a DO loop' story.  I can't find
it grepping through the Jargon file, and any other files I have here.  Can
somebody send me the story.  Thanks...

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com (Canadian first, Quebecer second)
"We sealed our federal pact without bloodshed and without exploitation of the
weak by the strong.  All it took was fairness, justice and some compromises
on both sides." - George-Etienne Cartier, Father of Confederation, 1867
From: 2429oconnorw@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Quiche Eaters and Fortran
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:47:29 GMT
Reply-To: 2429oconnorw@vms.csd.mu.edu
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

In article <1992Sep28.095636.5767@newstand.syr.edu>, wethater@rodan.acs.syr.edu (William E. Thater) writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.102853.2138@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> logier@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Rob Logie) writes:
>>logier@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Rob Logie) writes:
>>
>>
>>Thanks to the people who replied.  I now have a new copy of the article,
>	Yes, but I *didn't* see it the first time, so could some kind
>soul send it to me [wethater@mailbox.syr.edu]?
>
Same here.  Could someone send me a copy?  Please?
Thanks.
Bill O'Connor               | In the course of human events, there is
Marquette University        | always one person who will screw things
Milwaukee, WI               | up.
2429OCONNORW@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU |
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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Testing
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:18:39 GMT

ma90alb@brunel.ac.uk (Ashley L Brandwood) writes:

>This is a test, please ignore

Ok.

 >|< >|<  <-that's supposed to be me scrunching my eyes closed.
    ^
  (---)

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com or {uunet,revcan}!geovision!pt
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"Beebelbrox, over here!" "No, Beebelbrox over here, who you?"
"A friend." "Anybody's friend in particular, or just well disposed to people?"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: dboyes@is.rice.edu (David E Boyes)
Subject: Mean-looking iron: design decision or just cool stuff?
Organization: Rice University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:07:04 GMT

I just got my first look at the poster photos of a CM-5 --
Thinking Machine's latest super-powered warp-accelerated widget.
My first thought was: 

  "Damn, that machine looks *mean*."

I had a similar reaction to the CM2. Since a lot of the Thinking
Machines folks hang out here, can you tell us whether this is an
intentional design feature, or does it just happen this way?

(In case you haven't seen the blurbs, a CM-5 looks like a set of
interconnected black monoliths with blinkenlights in a
series of vertical panels on each side of the boxes. They're
*big* towering boxes -- they look to be 6 to 8 feet high in this
photo (the limited edition poster version). It kind of looks like
the Terrell building in _Bladerunner_ -- tall, thin and ominous. )
-- 
David Boyes
dboyes@rice.edu
From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What ever happened to Motorola 88000 chips
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:48:54 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <1992Oct6.121334.2598@mdcbbs.com> rivero@mdcbbs.com (Michael Rivero) writes:
>  I recall hearing about Motorola's follow-on to the 68000 series
>of CPU's, the 88000 series. It featured (initially) a CPU chip
>paired with twin memory managers running as cache's and IP units
>or somesuch. Sounded like a fascinating chip set, but it sorta faded
>away. Did the RISC revolution kill them off or what?
>
Motorola's 88K series is totally separate from the 68K.  In fact the 
88K is a RISC processor series.  There are 2 or 3 different versions
and they are being used as CPUs in some computers.


-- 
<<                                                               >>
<< Michael R. Brown    CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ >>
<< Internet: michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu                            >>
<< BitNet: m_brown@fauvax                                        >>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
Subject: Re: You know when you're hacking too long when...
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:36:47 GMT



In article <1992Oct1.014815.22106@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

   In article <1992Sep30.091442.18367@cv.ruu.nl> anton@cv.ruu.nl (Anton H.J. Koning) writes:
   >You know you've been hacking to long when you start typing semi-colons
   >at the end of sentences instead of full stops;

   You'll probably get more traffic tickets if you don't stop typing semi-colons
   or any other characters on your portable terminal while driving.  Wait until
   you're home to type.  Just because your vehicle is at a full stop doesn't
   mean you can hold up traffic while you type on your keyboard.

I hate it when the car computer crashes and I have to re-key the
bootstrap in hex with one hand while steering with the other.

of course its not as bad as the old days when you had to toggle in the
RIM loader using the switches under the front bumper next to the crank
start.
From: ferguson@cs.rochester.edu (George Ferguson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: dirty tricks
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:24:55 GMT
Reply-To: ferguson@cs.rochester.edu (George Ferguson)
Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester.


In article <1992Oct03.221213.18937@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Why don't you just put something like this in .login:
>
>if ( `tty` == /dev/console ) then
>  echo ""
>  echo -n "Starting XWindows (type Control-C to interrupt)"
>  sleep 5
>  xstart
>  echo -n "Automatically logging out (type Control-C to interrupt)"
>  sleep 5
>  logout
>endif

You must have read either my mind or my .login. Although one person
commented to me that this was "timer-induced panic", most people find
it very useful. One suggestion is that you could trap the Ctrl-C and
execute something for those times you don't want X, using "onintr" in
csh or "trap" in sh. For example:

	onintr INTR
	if ( ...on console... ) then
	   ...do X unless Ctrl-C...
	   logout
	endif
	INTR:
	clear; uptime; fortune

George
-- 
George Ferguson                 ARPA: ferguson@cs.rochester.edu
Dept. of Computer Science       UUCP: rutgers!rochester!ferguson
University of Rochester         VOX:  (716) 275-2527
Rochester  NY  14627-0226       FAX:  (716) 461-2018
From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person )
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Lillith
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:18:38 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Whatever happened to Wirth's Lillith machine that Pournelle was
forever writing about in the  early to mid-80's 

I know it was just Pournelle, but the blurbs he wrote about the
machine made it sound real interesting. 
-- 
Brett Person
Guest Account	
North Dakota State University
person@plains.nodak.edu || person@plains.bitnet
"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to loose"
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