Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!goanna!ok From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Some interesting novice questions from a novice guy Message-ID: <4112@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Date: 29 Oct 90 02:32:28 GMT References: <2620@cirrusl.UUCP> Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 11 In article , stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes: > Computers are (relatively) simple machines. > They do not respond to "Hey, you!". I beg to differ. The Burroughs machines have an instruction to interrupt another processor in the same cluster, and the name of that instruction is "HEYU". [It's a _joke_!] -- The problem about real life is that moving one's knight to QB3 may always be replied to with a lob across the net. --Alasdair Macintyre.