david@david.UUCP (David A. Roth) (12/20/87)
Testing
scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller) (05/09/88)
a test, please ignore -- Scott Hazen Mueller scott@zorch.UU.NET (408) 245-9461 (pyramid|tolerant|uunet)!zorch!scott
luttinen@berlin.acss.umn.edu (Jim Luttinen ) (06/22/88)
ignore me.
arnold@skeeve.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins) (07/24/88)
This is a test... -- "Crack-pot societies of all kinds sprang up everwhere, advocating everything from absolutism to anarchy. Queer cults arose, preaching free love, the imminent end of the world, and many other departures from the norm of thought." E.E. "Doc" Smith, Children of the Lens, 1954 | Arnold Robbins, skeeve!arnold
gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) (07/25/88)
Q: What's a UNIX-pc?
A: (1) It's a little white box with a thing called an OBM which everyone hates,
but uses anyway.
(2) It's a piece of junk, but what the hell, it's only $1500.00
(3) A white box that you can't add more than 4 megs of memory to
(4) It's a PC that you can't run MS/DOS or OS/2 on (who'd want to?)
(5) It's a heavy metal white computer that runs uucp and allows one to
post silly test articles.
Summary of everyone else's signature:
(.signature under construction)
(why do I need a .signature?)
Skate UNIX or go home, Boogie boy
cat flames > /dev/null
USENET - The final frontier
+------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+
| Gil Kloepfer, Jr. | Net-Address: |
| ICUS Software Systems | {boulder,talcott}!icus!limbic!gil |
| P.O. Box 1 | Voice-net: (516) 968-6860 |
| Islip Terrace, New York 11752 | Othernet: gil@limbic.UUCP |
+------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+gnews@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo ) (07/30/88)
This is a test - having problems posting.
--
Gary S. Trujillo {ihnp4,linus,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!gnosys!gst
Somerville, Massachusetts {cirl,ima,stech,wjh12}!gnosys!gsttcamp@numen.UUCP (Ted Campbell) (11/11/88)
This is a test of postnews on numen. -- |Ted A. Campbell |Duke Divinity School | | |Durham, NC 27706 | +--------------------------------+---------------------+ |Email: ...!ecsgate!dukeac!numen!tcamp |
tcamp@numen.UUCP (Ted Campbell) (11/14/88)
This is another test. -- |Ted A. Campbell |Duke Divinity School | | |Durham, NC 27706 | +--------------------------------+---------------------+ |Email: ...!ecsgate!dukeac!numen!tcamp |
steve@unx-pc.UUCP (08/26/89)
In the beginning, God created the bit. And the bit was a zero; nothing. On the first day, He toggled the 0 to a 1, and the Universe was. (In those days, bootstrap loaders were simple, and "active low" signals didn't yet exist.) On the second day, God's boss wanted a demo, and tried to read the bit. This being volatile memory, the bit reverted to a 0. And the universe wasn't. God learned the importance of backups and memory refresh, and spent the rest of the day (and his first all-nighter) reconstructing the universe. On the third day, the bit cried "Oh, Lord! If you exist, give me a sign!" And God created rev 2.0 of the bit, even better than the original prototype. Those in Universe Marketing immediately realized that "new and improved" wouldn't do justice to such a grand and glorious creation. And so it was dubbed the Most Significant Bit, or the Sign bit. Many bits followed, but only one was so honored. On the fourth day, God created a simple ALU with 'add' and 'logical shift' instructions. And the original bit discovered that by performing a single shift instruction, it could become the Most Significant Bit. And God realized the importance of computer security. On the fifth day, God created the first mid-life kicker, rev 2.0 of the ALU, with wonderful new features, and said "Screw that add and shift stuff. Go forth and multiply." And God saw that it was good. On the sixth day, God got a bit overconfident, and invented pipelines, register hazards, optimizing compilers, crosstalk, restartable instructions, microinterrupts, race conditions, and propagation delays. Historians have used this to convincingly argue that the sixth day must have been a Monday. On the seventh day, an engineering change introduced [name of buggy component deleted to keep lawyers happy] into the Universe, and it hasn't worked right since. (This came to me on a lengthy, roundabout path - most recently from rfrench@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU Title: electro-genesis)
jg@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (John Goodrich) (10/26/89)
testing....
elliot@comhex.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen) (11/11/89)
This is a test..
bchen@piglet.caltech.edu (Bing-Qing Chen) (11/12/89)
Testing of vn postnews distribution, Please ignore it! bchen@wega.caltech.edu bchen@pooh.caltech.edu