People here need to lighen up ;) Ok, take a look at this msg I was sent.. It's good for a laugh.
Chad Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:09:13 -0700 (MST) From: "by way of Jon E. Juarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: silly computer engineer story This is obviously a computer-guy thing... > >>Micro was a real-time operator and a dedicated multi-user. His >>broadband protocol made it easy for him to interface with numerous >>input/output devices, even if it meant time-sharing. >> >>One evening he arrived home just as the Sun was crashing, and had >>parked his Motorola 68000 in the main drive (he had missed the 5100 bus >>that morning), when he noticed an elegant piece of liveware admiring >>the daisy wheels in his garden. He though to himself, "She looks >>user-friendly. I'll see if she'd like an update tonight." >> >>He browsed over to her casually, admiring the power of her twin 32 bit >>floating point processors, and inquired, "How are you, Honeywell?" >>"Yes, I am well," she responded, batting her optical fibers engagingly >>and smoothing her console over her curvilinear functions. >> >>Micro settled for a straight line approximation. "I'm stand-alone >>tonight," he said. "How about computing a vector to my base address? >>I'll output a byte to eat and maybe we could get offset later on." >> >>Mini ran a priority process for 2.6 milliseconds, then transmitted 8K, >>"I've been recently dumped myself and a new page is just what I need to >>refresh my disk packs. I'll park my machine cycle in your background >>and meet you inside." She walked off, leaving Micro admiring her >>solenoids and thinking, "Wow, what a global variable! I wonder if >>she'd like my firmware?" >> >>They sat down at the process table to a top of form feed of fiche and >>chips and a bottle of Baudot. Mini was in conversational mode and >>expanded on ambiguous arguments while Micro gave occasional >>acknowledgements although, in reality, he was analyzing the shortest >>and least critical path to her entry point. He finally settled on the >>old line, "Would you like to see my benchmark subroutine?" but Mini >>was again one clock tick ahead. >> >>Suddenly, she was up and stripping off her parity bits to reveal the >>full functionality of her operating system. "Let's get BASIC, you RAM" >>she said. Micro was loaded by this stage, but his hardware policing >>module had a processor of its own and was in danger of overflowing its >>output buffer, a hang-up that Micro had consulted his analyst about. >>"Core," was all he could say, as she prepared to log him off. >> >>Micro soon recovered, however, when she went down on the DEC and opened >>her device files to reveal her data set ready. He accessed his fully >>packed root device and was about to start pushing into her CPU stack, >>when she attempted an escape sequence. >> >>"No, no!" she cried. "You're not shielded!" >> >>"Reset, baby," he replied. "I've been debugged." >> >>"But I haven't got my current loop enabled, and I can't support child >>processes," she protested. >> >>"Don't run away," he said. "I'll generate an interrupt." >> >>"No!" she squealed. "That's too error prone and I can't abort because >>of my design philosophy." >> >>But Micro was locked in by this stage and could not be turned off. Mini >>stopped his thrashing by introducing a voltage spike into his main >>supply, whereupon he fell over with a head crash and went to sleep. >> >>"Computers!" she thought as she compiled herself. "All they ever >>think of is hex!" >> >> >> >> >Donald Silver [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Don Silver Enterprises 415-508-8940 >http://www.dseweb.com > >It's too bad stupidity isn't painful > >
