Linux Computers: 491 of 1023 |
Modeling paged and segmented memories is tricky business.
-- P.J. Denning
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Linux Computers: 492 of 1023 |
Mommy, what happens to your files when you die?
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Linux Computers: 493 of 1023 |
Most public domain software is free, at least at first glance.
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Linux Computers: 494 of 1023 |
MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING
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Linux Computers: 495 of 1023 |
Mr. Jones related an incident from "some time back" when IBM Canada
Ltd. of Markham, Ont., ordered some parts from a new supplier in Japan. The
company noted in its order that acceptable quality allowed for 1.5 per cent
defects (a fairly high standard in North America at the time).
The Japanese sent the order, with a few parts packaged separately in
plastic. The accompanying letter said: "We don't know why you want 1.5 per
cent defective parts, but for your convenience, we've packed them separately."
-- Excerpted from an article in The (Toronto) Globe and Mail
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Linux Computers: 496 of 1023 |
MSDOS is not dead, it just smells that way.
-- Henry Spencer
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Linux Computers: 497 of 1023 |
Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really
know what we are doing.
-- E. Dijkstra
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Linux Computers: 498 of 1023 |
Multics is security spelled sideways.
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Linux Computers: 499 of 1023 |
MVS Air Lines:
The passengers all gather in the hangar, watching hundreds of technicians
check the flight systems on this immense, luxury aircraft. This plane has at
least 10 engines and seats over 1,000 passengers; bigger models in the fleet
can have more engines than anyone can count and fly even more passengers
than there are on Earth. It is claimed to cost less per passenger mile to
operate these humungous planes than any other aircraft ever built, unless
you personally have to pay for the ticket. All the passengers scramble
aboard, as do the 200 technicians needed to keep it from crashing. The pilot
takes his place up in the glass cockpit. He guns the engines, only to
realise that the plane is too big to get through the hangar doors.
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Linux Computers: 500 of 1023 |
My God, I'm depressed! Here I am, a computer with a mind a thousand times
as powerful as yours, doing nothing but cranking out fortunes and sending
mail about softball games. And I've got this pain right through my ALU.
I've asked for it to be replaced, but nobody ever listens. I think it would
be better for us both if you were to just log out again.
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