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>From SFL@SRI-CSL Fri Nov 5 12:05:27 1982 SF-LOVERS Digest Tuesday, 2 Nov 1982 Volume 6 : Issue 69 Today's Topics: Authors - Moorcock T.V. - HHGttG in Philly, N.Y, Conn, etc. Movies - Star Trek, Jedi Humor - Sub-Ethernet from Digital ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 31 Oct 1982 1745-PST Subject: Moorcock From: Mike Leavitt <LEAVITT at USC-ISI> I have long felt Moorcock to be mostly empty of interesting ideas in his pursuit of his "new wave" ego trips. I surprised myself when I picked up a book of his called \The Swords Trilogy/ recently, and surprised myself even more when I read it all (400 pages) and enjoyed it. It is rather good Swords and Sorcery stuff with a believable hero, an interesting set of quests, and a rather neat tie-up-the-strings ending. It also has a particularly believable bit where Moorcock brings in some heros from previous books to solve a difficult problem. A fine airplane read (The Swords Trilogy, Berkley medallion, 1977, ISBN 0-425-03468-2) Mike <Leavitt at USC-ISI> ------------------------------ Date: 28 Oct 82 15:39:15-EDT (Thu) From: David Axler <axler.upenn@UDel-Relay> Subject: HHGttG @ Phila Philly fans of Zaphod should know that the BBC-TV version will be running on our local PBS affiliate (Channel 12, WHYY-tv), beginning on Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 10:00 P.M. EST, and continuing on Tuesdays (same time, station, &c) thereafter. ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 1982 1700-EST From: Margot <Flowers at YALE> Subject: Hitch Hiking in NY & Conn Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy starts on Thu, Nov 4, 8:00pm on Channel 13 in New York, repeating on Sunday, 10:30pm. It started on Sat, October 80, 11:00pm on Channel 24/49/65 on Connecticut Public TV. ------------------------------ Date: 2 Nov 1982 0803-PST From: Brent Hailpern <CSL.SSO.BTH at SU-SCORE> Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest Vol 6, #67 HGTTG premiers in New York on Wednesday, Nov. 3 - channel 13 ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 1982 2246-PST From: Henry W. Miller <Miller at SRI-NIC> Subject: Star Trek, the command console I have come to the conclusion that the command console prefix code feature was added sometime between the M5 incident ("The Ultimate Computer") and "The Wrath of Kahn". I just saw a repeat of "The Doomsday Machine", where Kirk stays on the crippled Constellation until the last second, steering it down the planet eaters throat. If the command console prefix existed at that point in time, they should have been able to steer the ship by remote control. But, then again, that wouldn't be exciting enough. (P.S. That brings up another point. Cmmdr. Decker dies in an attempt to destroy the thing, and his son, Will Decker is "absorbed" by V'ger in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." What will the next Star Trek movie be? Why, "The Revenge of Mrs. Decker", of course. -HWM ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 1982 12:05:32 CST (Monday) From: Mike Meyer <mwm at OKC-UNIX> Subject: RotJ Obviously, revenge would only be appropriate if the Jedi in question had/was succombed/ing to the dark side of the force. How many Jedi Knights do we know who have this problem? <mike ------------------------------ Date: 2 November 1982 21:32-EDT From: Eirikur Hallgrimsson (RDVAX::Eiirkur at DEC) at MIT-AI Subject: Humor: Sub-Ethernet from Digital Digital Responds to Hyper-Ethernet TEWKSBURY, MA, April 1, 2010 -- Digital Equipment announced today it's new DECnet Phase XVIII Architecture. In response to recent Xerox and Wang improvements to Ethernet that provide people and facility transportation across inter-node links, DEC's latest DECnet provides these capabilities as well as providing for the creation of virtual facilities and even countries. These capabilities are provided by breakthroughs in communications technology that actually uses the Ether as a communications media. Through the use of a new dedicated NANO-PDP-11/E99 gateway processor system, ETHERGATE, DECnet users can access anywhere in the Ethereal Plane. This development obsoletes teleconferencing, since meeting groups can create their own common conference rooms and cafeterias, thus resolving space, travel and dining problems. There may be a few bugs left, as some of the dissenting DECnet Review Group members have not been seen since the last meeting held in such a virtual conference facility. This breakthrough was brought about by a team effort ofthe Distributed Systems' Software and Hardware engineering teams in a effort to improve on their Tewksbury, Massachusetts facility. In a compromise decision, Distributed Systems will maintain an ETHERGATE in TWOOO, but it will connect directly to their new home somewhere in the Shire of their newly defined Middle Earth reality. Despite some difficulties, the scenery, windows, tax breaks, pool and racquetball courts made the relocation go quite smoothly. Engineering Network topology will not change, as all forwarding will be done by the TWOOO Ethereal Plane Router residing in the crater at the former building site. Utility packages such as Ethereal Person Transfer (EPT) and Ethereal Facility Transfer (EFT) provide appropriate capabilities for casual users. Sophisticated users can create ($CREATE), access ($OPEN), and delete ($NUKE) ethereal entities transparently from high level languages using the Ethereal Management System (EMS) package and the Ethereal Access Protocol (EAP). An ETHERTRIEVE utility for easy interactive use will be available shortly. DECnet Phase XVIII follows on the success of the Phase XVI ability to access everyone's Digital Professional wrist watch computer system. This lead to the current Phase XVII architecture, which has routing capabilities that allow direct communications with the entire Earth population's Atari home video games. Distributed Systems architects are hard at work on the next phase of DECnet that will include multi-plane existence network management (using the NIECE protocol) and galaxy level routing using 64K bit addresses. Digital will continue to support it's Gateway products into the Prime Material Plane. These products include an IBM ANA (Acronym-based Network Architecture) Gateway, the TOLKIEN product that allows control of all ring based networks, and our Mega-broad-jump-band hardware which leaps past Wang's products in the hype weary business marketplace. >From our Engineering Net. (You can tell that they're really working on on it. Racquetball courts indeed!) Enjoy, Eirikur ------------------------------ End of SF-LOVERS Digest ***********************