Additional bonus points awarded if the only boot mechanism was a 9-track
tape drive that required you to disconnect your dryer as part of the
boot-up process.......
- Matt
At 10:22 AM 1/28/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Chase [mailto:vaxzilla_at_jarai.org]
>
> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Roger Merchberger wrote:
>
> > > Hell, *everything* I do is fast -- Winders & Linux!
> > [[ahem... I have a
> > > dual-processor Athlon MP 1600+ -- dual SCSI, dual LAN,
> > etc... so I realize
> > > this isn't a fair fight... ;-) ]]
>
> > You're not gonna impress anyone on this list with that candy-pants
> > quiche-eating system. You can start to get our attention by get a
> > computer that weighs more than you. Or barring that, we'll respect
> > you more if your system doesn't have floating point instructions,
> > or an integer divide, or even an integer multiply.
>
>Hear Hear. Though, I may listen when Athlons have casters and a
>respectable console firmware with "deposit" and "examine" commands, at
>least. Bonus points if you can't get them to run windows should your life
>depend on it.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris
>
>
>Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
>Amdocs - Champaign, IL
>
>/usr/bin/perl -e '
>print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
>'
>
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