From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-04-01T08:19:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Respect and Disappointment

* Mark Probert <probertm@acm.org> [0336 21:36]:
> Hi .. 
> 
>  On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:31, Dick Davies wrote:

[ on as-400s ]

> > But they don't 'wield them', do they? Not unless they're the size of king
> > kong, at least.

> Taken an axe to them is close :-)

You'd be there a while  :)
I wish I could remember the origins of the quote I heard somewhere during an
'intel/amd clock cycle pissing contest' somewhere on usenet. Some grizzled vet
piped up with:

"They're not real computers.
A real computer is one that would kill you if it fell on you"
 
-- 
'The heroes claimed that they did care about people getting shot,
so they crashed their cars into them instead.'
		-- DNA, on 'Starsky and Hutch'
Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns