Re: Why are laptops no longer made with serial ports?

From: Iwo Mergler (Iwo_dot_Mergler_at_soton.sc.philips.com)
Date: 07/02/04 

Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:25:40 +0100

Jon Parmet wrote:
>
> Right! I run System V on my VIC-20!
>
> Hmmmm...well, I am getting SVR4 for my HP 48Sx.....
>
> HA! _I'm_ just finishing up a port of VMS for my Timex Sinclair! Top
> THAT!
>
> I'm running NextStep on Atari 2600 Video Game System.
>
> Just last night I was able to get Windows to boot on my Sears PONG
> game.
>
> I am replying to this message with my built-in VAX Mailer on my
> Game-Boy.
>
> I just installed a 10 Gigabyte Drive to handle all the replies!
> However, it only
> runs at 230,000 Baud due to the large drive slowing it down.
>
> I fear I will not be getting news any longer... The batteries on my
> calculator
> watch are running out.
>
> My calculator watch is Solar... And if I turned off the lights, NO ONE
> would be
> gettings news...
>
> Feh. I'm so slick NASA just awarded ME the TERADATA contract to run on
> my TV
> remote! They liked my proposal mainly because I'm ALSO able to
> shoehorn in the
> TEXAS SUPERCOLLIDER computations between commercials! Beat THAT!
>
> Well, well, well. SSC calculations, huh. I built a system out of 2
> inches of
> wire, 3 pennies and a AA battery that does realtime calculations of
> particle
> vectors during the Big Bang. A complete simulation of the first 2
> years of the
> life of the universe accurate to the theoretical limit, takes about 5
> seconds.
>
> And you guys think you are so great. I just spent the last half hour
> getting X11
> to run on my slide rule. I am still having problem connecting it to
> the net
> around here, but I would welcome any suggestions.
>
> So what!!! I'm running Xinitrc, TWMRC, Internet, and 27 muds off of a
> paper
> clip. Not to mention the fact that I am designing a new form of
> television with
> 7000 pixels based off a piece of tissue paper. Next!!!
>
> Man, that's baby stuff. I'm running a particle accelerator utilizing
> matter-antimatter reactions in my doorknob, and calculating everything
> in the
> fourth dimension using a single dip switch and a large glass of water.
>
> Chilld's play, I have an old piece of cheese that is, at this very
> moment,
> raytracing an actual model of the universe five hours from now, while
> at the
> same time calculating the heat produced from the new Pentium.
>
> And you people think that you are hackers! I'm currently engaged in a
> project
> which involves simultaneous simulation of multiple universes (To see
> what would
> happen if various constants change. Pi-8.4 is an interesting one.) My
> hardware
> consists of a single wooden pencil (no paper, With it, I can do
> real-time
> simulations of 2^32 universes in parallel.
>
> You guys are wimps!! I've just finished converting a microwave oven
> into a
> paradimensional teleportation device., The problem I'm having so far
> is that my
> breakfast bagel keeps disappearing!! May have to eat it raw . . .
>
> Sorry, that's my fault. I'm afraid that the high energy laser-pumped
> negentropic
> vortex generator I made from my own nostril hair, which is currently
> cranking
> out entire new universes at the rate of 7.6 per picosecond, was
> breaking the FCC
> emissions limits and gronking your microwave's control panel. It
> should work
> properly now. Also, my cat Arthur was FTPing hundreds of terabytes of
> PD
> software from Epsilon Eridani in the year 4741 A.D over the
> faster-than-light
> Ethernet interface I built for him, and this may have been loading the
> Net a
> little yesterday. My sincere apologies to everyone who noticed any
> performance
> degradation.
>
> I am bribing that cat with sardines. My next project will use
> sophisticated
> software from 4741 A.D. to autogenerate trashy science fiction novels
> from my
> coffee cup. I'm almost there.... it works as well as Windows 3.0
>
>
> :)
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>
>
> Regards,
> Jon

So nobody is porting Linux to run on Stonehenge yet?

Iwo