Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!labrea!rutgers!mailrus!umix!oxtrap!lokkur!scs From: scs@lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: unix-pc.test Subject: Re: The UNIX PC is GARRRRBAAAAAJ! Summary: I know I'm gonna regret this . . . :-) Keywords: Garbage! UNIX-PC. Message-ID: <311@lokkur.UUCP> Date: 25 Jul 88 22:36:18 GMT References: <194@gizzmo.UUCP> Reply-To: scs@lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons) Organization: Inland Sea Software, Ltd. Lines: 59 In article <194@gizzmo.UUCP> Kdavid@gizzmo.UUCP (David Solan) writes: :: :: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- :: Boy, what I would like to see is a UNIX PC with lots more memory -- :: about 32 million gigabytes, this is really important for all us great :: computer sites that run Super-GNU EMACS+++ 892034.34512, which needs :: 1.7 terabytes to load, and which consists of 1,399,000,000 lines of :: condensed C source code that all us great computer whizes know by :: heart and recompile every day for all our super important editing work :: (namely editing the Super-GNU EMACS+++ 892034.34511 editor source), :: and we really need a three-dimensional 358 foot wide by 182 feet high :: by 8 feet deep CRT screen with front projection, 500,000,000 by :: 756,000,000 pixels, in full color, including the X-ray, ultraviolet, :: and infrared spectrum, with red on black, no, white on purple, no, :: turquoise on chartreuse, yeah, that's it, turquoise on chartreuse, :: characters on the screen ... oh, what about a multiple processor CPU :: with eight thousand closely coupled 68090 processors, each running at :: 800 gigahertz speed, and each one attached to 6 math coprocessors so :: that it is 20,000 times faster than the fastest computer in the world, :: again, because I am so great and so far-sighted and so much better :: than anyone else on USENET, and how about an ESDI/SCSI/ST-500600 :: 12-drive board to run twelve 52-terabyte optical read/write external :: memory devices with 0.00007 microsecond average access times? come on :: AT&T, wake up! and the software on this machine -- shame on AT&T and :: Convergent for not fully revealing the source code to us which they :: spent 10 years and a mere $100,000,000 to develop and which they :: should send to us with free coupons for a raffle of 50% of all of the :: outstanding common and preferred stock of AT&T -- oh, what I wouldn't :: give for a UNIX System VVV, Version 789.3, combined with the latest :: Berkeley BSD plus IBM AIX super-duper Operating System (taking up 56 :: quadrillion bytes of virtual RAM), so that I can really exercise my :: great programming abilities to their fullest and while we're at it, :: when is AT&T going to install that new 766 horsepower set of :: 32,000,000 cubic feet per second fans to really keep this baby cool -- :: huh? and the prices on this abortion are OUTRAGEOUS -- anything more :: than $1.89 for ALL of the above, including postage and handling and a :: 5-year maintenance contract, is highway robbery! boy, is this UNIX PC :: garbage! :: :: P.S. Can anyone please tell me what I'm supposed to do after I boot up :: the machine and it says "Please login:" ??? It does this every time :: and no matter what I do I can't hack this kludgey bug. Come on -- :: John, Fred, Pete, Marty, Bob, Jack, Chris, Mortimer -- one of you guru :: wizards out there must know! I'll post a summary of the replies if :: there is enough interest. :: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- :: :: David Solan :: Objective Programming Incorporated :: Post Office Box 123 :: Norwalk, CT 06856 :: Voice: (203) 866-6900 :: attmail: RTFM -- + Steve Simmons, Inland Sea Software, Ltd. scs@lokkur.uucp + | 9353 Hidden Lake, Dexter, MI. 48130 313-426-8981 | + UNIX Admin and Training Services "Just eight scenic miles from Hell" +