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From: SYSPMZT@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Re: Man w/ pipe
Message-ID: <91157.163954SYSPMZT@GECRDVM1.BITNET>
Date: 6 Jun 91 20:39:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.131017.12110@ira.uka.de> <A1663047366@thelake.mn.org>
Organization: General Electric Corporate Research & Development
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In article <A1663047366@thelake.mn.org>, steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington)
says:
>
>[In article <1991Jun6.131017.12110@ira.uka.de>,
>     S_DINGLER@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Florian Dingler) writes ... ]
>
>> I wonder if anyone knows who the man smoking a pipe is. You know, the one
>you
>> find in the ATARI-ST charset with the codes 28-31 or so. Is he just a little
>> joke or a special person or what ?
>> Please write followups, no mail.
>
>Bob is indeed a special person, being the revered icon of the Church of the
>Sub-Genius.
>

Well, now I know why Bob is seen on the dialog box of the ram disk I use.
I'd thought that the programmer was really cool to spend the time drawing
Bob.  Now I know that the real cool person is or was hidden inside Atari
while they were developing the machine.

For all the deficiencies of the operating system, at least it offers
slack to all who seek.

Phil Z