maciag@spar.UUCP (Chris Maciag) (08/14/85)
In article <4770004@acf4.UUCP> mancello@acf4.UUCP (Dominic Mancello) writes: >to fuse 3 nucleis of Unixidium and 2 isotopes of radon will cause the >kernals to explode. What is interesting with this fusion is that more >energy is released than consumed. Perhaps this is our future energy source? Thenn again, these exploding kernals may result in a new, high tech, low calorie popcorn. Maybe we could get Orville Redibocker to work on this project and get a higher yeild kernal (or is he one of the people not on the net?). ->Chris _________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap Holidays from other people's miseries.... Johnny Rotten
plw@mgwess.UUCP (Pete Wilson) (08/15/85)
In article <236@gymble.UUCP> fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) writes: > >This principle was dicovered hundreds of years ago by the American >Indians, who learned to cross-breed the corn plant with primitive IBM >operating systems, and fertilize the new plant with dead fish. The >result was, as we all know, popcorn. The operating system kernels in >use at the time, being so primitive, would explode at tempeatures low >enough to be reached in an ordinary campfire, puffing out the corn >kernel. > >Modern operating systems such as Unix are much more resilient, and >require a much higher temperature to explode, so if anyone attempts to >produce unix-based popcorn, it would porobably need to be popped in a >nuclear reactor. Furthermore, the Unix kernal would need to be written >so that it wouldn't reboot, to prevent the corn form unpopping itself. >-- >All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to >actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. > > Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 > Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} > harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred Well, some Un*x kernels must have hanging around Three Mile Island... some popped and now we have Korn shells..... Pete Wilson AT&T IS CGBS Montgomery Works ..!ihnp4!mgnetp!mgwess!plw <If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?>