From: shephard@fraser.sfu.ca (Gordon Shephard)
Subject: Re: Help with XMS mailer on my Game-Boy?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 21:01:38 GMT

e91petmo@odalix.ida.liu.se (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.
>>>: >>>>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.
>>>: >>You guys are wimps!!  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 . . .
>>>: >
>>>: >Sorry, that's my fault.  I'm afraid that the high-energy laser-pumped
>>>: >negentropic vortex generator I made from my own nostril hair, which is
>>>: >currently cranking out entire new universes at the rate of 7.6 per picosecond,
>>>: >was breaking the FCC emissions limits and gronking your microwave's control
>>>: >panel.  It should work properly now.  Also, my cat Arthur was FTPing hundreds
>>>: >of terabytes of PD software from Epsilon Eridani in the year 4741 A.D. over
>>>: >the faster-than-light Ethernet interface I built for him, and this may have
>>>: >been loading the Net a little yesterday.  My sincere apologies to everyone who
>>>: >noticed any performance degradation.
>>>: 
>>>: Damn, I thought I was doin' smoe really advanced R&D. But I only have a 
>>>: humble feather pen with build in spell checking. It checks all languages 
>>>: since Adam & Eve plus a few forthcoming languages. But after what I've seen 
>>>: here, thats not good enough for a Nobel Price..I have to work harder...
>>>: Maybe some of the languages from outer space will help ?? I just have to 
>>>: use my FingerNail Time&Universe Transporter(tm) to get there and learn them.
>>>
>>>You're all a bunch of lazy pseudo-programmers. When you have, as I, set
>>>up an entire University Unix net (with Mail, IRC, more than 2 MUDs, ano-
>>>nymous ftp, etc etc etc etc etc ) on a Turing Machine, we'll talk.

>>Hahaha! Fools! You think that's impressive? I've wired together every
>>computer on the Internet with Quantum-Thin Wire (tm), and programmed it
>>to act like a really big abacus. Running 8 x 10^100^10^10^10^4
>>calculations a millisecond, I hope to solve the equation 5x = 10
>>by sometime next week. Now _that's_ progress.
>Then how about this: I've constructed the first computer ever made of one
>single Hydrogen atom. There are a couple of advantages with it; 1. it can
>be inhaled for transport; 2. it relies entirely on voice-detecting for input,
>and a hologram for output (that was the tricky part), and 3. it creates
>two copies of itself every second, allowing for multiple processes! I'm
>speaking this reply right now to a cloud in front of me, using a Voice
>Detection version (mine, really) of X-Windows in 3D. NEXT!
All accomplishments pale beside mine: Managed to re-write DOS 5.0 so that
it breaks the the 640K barrier.