Path: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!newspump.wustl.edu!bigfoot.wustl.edu!clarion.cec.wustl.edu!not-for-mail From: daf1@clarion.cec.wustl.edu (Danyel A Fisher) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Pentium humor Date: 6 Dec 1994 22:06:05 -0600 Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3c3cbd$qq@clarion.cec.wustl.edu> References: <3328@bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM> <1994Dec6.135433.15691@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: clarion.cec.wustl.edu >Not as much as during the ad which shows a kid using his computer for >educational purposes for a while, then playing a Wing Commander game >when his parents are gone, all from a perspective within the monitor >tube, so that you can see the Pentium on the motherboard. Anyone know >where you can get a monitor that has a glass from but no tube behind >it, but does contain a Pentium? Hmmm ... when I play WCI on my 486-66DX2 (Intel), it really flies. Like, painfully so. Like, mission start=death. A pentium would be painful to play on. I'm not sure you'd notice that you'd played before you died. -Danyel From the Support Desk at the End of The Universe [Hitchhiker's Guide to Computing, book 2] The scene in the garage: Ford: "man, that is some chip. Those lines!" Zaphod: "Yeah, I was going flat out on my Sparc20 and this baby just goes past me, coprocessor barely ticking over." Ford: "Really?" Zaphod: "then it did an FDIV and nosedived. Adds like a cray, multiplies like a cray, divides like an abacus." -- Sometimes, you meet a person.| Danyel Fisher |To a pessimist, the world I am one of those people. | daf1@cec.wustl.edu |is full of happy surprises