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From: tygra!dave@sharkey.cc.umich.edu
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Subject: Re: Lateral Thinking
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Date: 29 Nov 90 12:36:47 GMT
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RZOTTO@DKNKURZ1.BITNET (Otto.Stolz) writes:
)
)An amusing variation of this motif can be found in the chapter
)introductions of Douglas Hofstatter's "Goedel, Esher, Bach: an Eternal
)Golden Braid", where the Turtoise keeps producing records that cannot
)be played on Achilles' more and more sophisticated hi-fi record
)players.

I think you'll find it was the Crab's hi-fi phonographs which were being
destroyed by the Tortoise's records.  The Tortoise was merely relating
the story to Achilles.

) To check for viruses, you have to start your
)system without activating any virus. E.g. you can boot from a
)confirmed clean system disk and avoid running any infected program.

Unfortunately, all my bootable disks are infected by a horrible, evil
program, perhaps the most insidious program that cruelly twisted minds
have ever devised.

It's called MS-DOS.  :-)
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David R. Conrad     | "If Douglas Hofstadter were dead he'd turn over in his
dave@tygra.ddmi.com | grave upon hearing such a crude self-referential
..!tygra!dave      | sentence as this one." -- The author of this quote.
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