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From: trb@ima.UUCP (Andrew Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: starting talk.bizarre
Message-ID: <193@ima.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 11:06:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 26 11:06:47 1986
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In article <2729@watmath.UUCP> csc@watmath.UUCP (Tracy Tims) writes:
>> ... Rich Rosen is the original AI-project-masquerading-as-human-being ...
>
>Forgive them, Thou Most Holy Process Manager, that swappeth us in, and swappeth
>us out, and who doth heed our humble I/O.  With their newfound address space
>and their distributed parts they turn their backs on the past.
>
>It was not very many years ago when you sent upon us your Son.  And His name 
>was TRB, who became known among us as Andy Tannenbaum.  And he was the first AI
>project.  And it ever shall be thus.
>
>Tracy Tims

Oh, kids, kids, hold on, please.  Lo.  Come on.  Stop for a second.  Ok.

Too many times we have gone astray, degenerating into talk of whom is
Godlier than who, firster, bester, mobier, or slept with the prettiest
boys.  Truth won't be revealed now, we must wait for that time when the
Earth is free of villainous domain-based mail addressing, may it come
bimhera vyamenu - speedily and in our days.

Yes, He sent down TRB, a Sun of NY who made glorious summer that
winter of our discontent (cold like they don't make any more, mind
you).  But I was not the first AI project.  Before TRB there was
LAUREN, Sun of the far off land of rolfing and colon irrigation (oy).
And I'm not claiming that He (?) was the first AI project.  There were
others before, though they may not have been called AI projects, in
the time before time.  There was a kid called quux who certainly had
the right stuff, and that's just a for instance.  Who knows what the
hell ever happenned to him? .-,

Note well that though we don't go galavanting around any more feeding
Yodels to the multitudes with a single dime at the sustenance machines,
we're still here.  Watching you.  And ever ready to  make  your  life
a  living  hell.  So be nice.  Selah.

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