Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mgwess.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!amdcad!amd!pesnta!hplabs!qantel!ihnp4!mgnetp!mgwess!plw From: plw@mgwess.UUCP (Pete Wilson) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: New Element Produced!!! Message-ID: <14940@mgwess.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 21:01:20 EDT Article-I.D.: mgwess.14940 Posted: Wed Aug 14 21:01:20 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 28-Aug-85 06:32:10 EDT References: <4770004@acf4.UUCP> <236@gymble.UUCP> Reply-To: plw@mgwess.UUCP (Wilson,Pete,PL) Organization: AT&T Information Systems - Montgomery Illinois Lines: 32 In article <236@gymble.UUCP> fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) writes: > >This principle was dicovered hundreds of years ago by the American >Indians, who learned to cross-breed the corn plant with primitive IBM >operating systems, and fertilize the new plant with dead fish. The >result was, as we all know, popcorn. The operating system kernels in >use at the time, being so primitive, would explode at tempeatures low >enough to be reached in an ordinary campfire, puffing out the corn >kernel. > >Modern operating systems such as Unix are much more resilient, and >require a much higher temperature to explode, so if anyone attempts to >produce unix-based popcorn, it would porobably need to be popped in a >nuclear reactor. Furthermore, the Unix kernal would need to be written >so that it wouldn't reboot, to prevent the corn form unpopping itself. >-- >All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to >actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. > > Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 > Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} > harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred Well, some Un*x kernels must have hanging around Three Mile Island... some popped and now we have Korn shells..... Pete Wilson AT&T IS CGBS Montgomery Works ..!ihnp4!mgnetp!mgwess!plw