The UNIX PC is GARRRRBAAAAAJ!

[Steve Simmons]

In article <194 at gizzmo.UUCP> Kdavid at gizzmo.UUCP (David Solan) writes:
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:: 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.
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:: 		David  Solan
:: 		Objective Programming Incorporated
:: 		Post Office Box 123
:: 		Norwalk,  CT  06856
:: 		Voice: (203) 866-6900
:: 		attmail: <!dsolan>

RTFM
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