GEHRI@cc.usu.edu (Gehri Grimaud) (01/17/90)
In article <1361@scorn.sco.COM>, davidv@sco.COM (David Vangerov) writes: > 2) Rick Cook wrote a fantasy novel called "Wizard's Bane" that features > such fun things as Emacs, C, Unix. it mentions *sizeof* specifically > (put in boldface). later on in the book we get R^2D^2, find, a passwd > cracker, some stuff that looks like C, or maybe Lisp, Emac(s), grep, > $ prompt, cd, slash, backslash, and other stuff common in Unix. the > story centers around a guy who is magically transported into another > world where magic reins supreme, and there is no technology. he has > nickname of Wiz, which is why he was called into the other world to > help fight evil magic. eventually he invents a magic compiler to help > in this. very intersting novel. A sequel has been released by Rick Cook. It is "The Wizardy Compiled". I liked the bit when he ran his maigc "program"; it created a demon. It is much fun. -- =============================================================================== Gehri Grimaud gehri@cc.usu.edu Utah State University gehri@usu.bitnet Office of Computer Services tel. (801) 750-2392 UMC 3700 Logan, Utah 84322 "It's spelled Gehri Grimaud, but it is pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove" ===============================================================================
depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) (01/17/90)
In article <6959@lindy.Stanford.EDU> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: > > lma@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Larry M. Augustin) wrote in an article: >>In <5894@umd5.umd.edu> ziegast@umd5.umd.edu (Eric W. Ziegast) writes: >>>In <1187@ariel.unm.edu> lazlo@ariel.unm.edu.UUCP (Lazlo Nibble) writes: >>>In the Arnold Schwarzenagor thriller, The Terminator, one will notice the >>>6502 assembly code appearing on the left side of Terminator's-eye view >>>camera shots. > As another poster mentioned, it was definitely 6502 code.. > > I BELIEVE it was actually a DOS 3.3 listing of some point and >may have actually been a patch to DOS 3.3 from an article in BYTE. I >am sort of kludging things that I remember together, as "BYTE" and "DOS 3.3" >are basically the two main points I remember. Well, all the correct answers were given in this thread, but nobody realized that there are more than one! Yes, one listing was a RWTS dump... Another was a monitor memory dump... And another was the output of Key Perfect. (Perhaps there were more, but I definitely remember these three).. -- S. Alan Ezust depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca McGill University School of Computer Science - Montreal, Quebec, Canada If pro is the opposite of con, what's the opposite of progress?