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From: frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: ftp.apple.com humor
Message-ID: <1991May17.055454.24343@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 05:54:54 GMT
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This is humor, folks.  Flames to /dev/null (or the Trash, if you use MacOS).

depot% nslookup
Default Server:  depot.cis.ksu.edu
Address:  129.130.10.5

> server apple.com
Default Server:  apple.com
Address:  130.43.2.2

> ftp.apple.com
Server:  apple.com
Address:  130.43.2.2

ftp.apple.com   canonical name = bric-a-brac.apple.com
bric-a-brac.apple.com   CPU=MacIIx      OS=UNIX

Hmmm.  Ftp.apple.com is a Mac IIx.  Not very reassuring that Apple's
ftp server that crashes intermittently is a Mac.

Maybe they should buy a Sun. :-)

  --Jerry

[ Just another bored Mac user, until I can ftp System 7 ]

--
Jerry Frain -- Systems Programmer               Kansas State University
                                        Department of Computing & Info Sciences
Internet : frain@cis.ksu.edu                       Manhattan, Kansas
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