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From: jimf@idayton.field.intel.com (Jim Fister)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,rec.arts.sf-lovers,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Count Zero Interrupt
Keywords: interrupt, zero, counter
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Date: 10 Nov 90 14:44:25 GMT
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>Looks like Gibson was misinformed
>or he misquoted.

I've listened fairly passively to all this, but I'd like to add my two
cents if I may.  I always thought that this statement was one of those
poetic liscense (sp) kinda' things.  The idea was that if our hero got
noticed by the big boys, or big silicon piles, or whatever, our hero was
then toast.  I honestly forget, but wasn't that statement near the climax
of the book when every protaganist in the story was inches away from being
smeared across pavement/space/building fronts?

Just some input from a former English Major and full-time Cyberpunk junkie. 

Greetings from the Rocking Metropolis.

JimF