tron@amdahl.UUCP (09/22/87)
My curiosity got the best of me on this one. Is this a group for discussing
the generation of punk-rock music waveforms using a cyber computer to compute
the waveform at a sample rate of 100,000/sec? Or is it ... Hmmm. No, I
can't think of anything else other than different sampling rates, that must
be what it is.
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. . . on the other hand, "cyberpunk" has been used to describe a
sub-genre of science fiction which includes depictions of advanced computer
technology and a certain gritty and unpleasant view of future cultural trends.
The "big" sf cyberpunk book is William Gibson's 'Neuromancer', and
'Max Headroom' is the best example on TV.
Which one this newsgroup is intended to {describe,praise,attack}, I
don't know -- let's watch & see . . .
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In article <14820@amdahl.amdahl.com> tron@amdahl.amdahl.com (Ronald S. Karr) writes: >My curiosity got the best of me on this one. Is this a group for discussing >the generation of punk-rock music waveforms using a cyber computer to compute >the waveform at a sample rate of 100,000/sec? Or is it ... Hmmm. No, I >can't think of anything else other than different sampling rates, that must >be what it is. Beats me! /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Michael Seidel (Starman) \\ Warning: This .signature may spontaneously seidel@skat.usc.edu // combust without warning. mseidel@nunki.usc.edu \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ seidel@uscvm.BITNET // "Hey! Stand up! Toothless People!" - A.Y. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
myers@buengc.UUCP (09/24/87)
I was hoping this group was formed to discuss programming on Cyber-class computers (like the 205). If there is such a group or if one forms in the future please let me know, but until then..... Eric Myers >>> NO LIGHTS AT FENWAY!! <<< Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, Mass. 02215 (617)353-9132 ...harvard!bu-cs!buengc!myers myers@buphyc.BITNET myers@buengc.bu.edu _____________________________________________________________________________ | This is an ETA-10, the most powerful computer in the world. Why, it | | could blow your head clean off! Now I know what you're thinking, punk. | | Did he use seven pipelines or eight? To tell you the truth, in the heat | | of the calculation I forgot myself. So the real question you have to ask | | yourself, punk, is 'do you feel lucky?'. Do you? - Dirty Seymour | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Eric Myers >>> NO LIGHTS AT FENWAY!! <<< Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, Mass. 02215 (617)353-9132 ...harvard!bu-cs!buengc!myers myers@buphyc.BITNET myers@buengc.bu.edu
chongo@amdahl.UUCP (09/25/87)
In article <191@buengc.BU.EDU> myers@buengc.UUCP (Eric Myers) writes: >I was hoping this group was formed to discuss programming on Cyber-class >computers (like the 205). Darn! I thought this was going to a group where old Cyber hackers could send each other Compass macros and ponder the days of 60 bit words... :-) chongo <Impeach Reagan> /\pp/\ -- [views above shouldn't be viewed as Amdahl views, or as views from Amdahl, or as Amdahl views views, or as views by Mr. Amdahl, or as views from his house]
alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer) (09/27/87)
Going along with the SF subgenre definition of cyberpunk, I would
point out that it predates - by 10 or 15 years - what most people
seem to call the origins of cyberpunk.
I'm referring specifically to some of John Brunner's stuff,
particularly "Stand On Zanzibar" published in (I think) 1967. It
definitely has the gritty future, the cyber slant (Shalmanezer),
the network - although granted, not the 'cyberspace' of Gibson's
"Neuromancer" or Vinge's "True Names".
Some of Brunners other works from that period could also be
lumped into that group: "The Jagged Orbit" and "Shockwave Rider",
for example.
Cyberpunk? It's just another crest following the trough behind
the "New Wave".
Hmm, for that matter, is Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth And
I Must Scream" cyberpunk?
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