Subject: Re: HELP!
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/21/2001 19:42:15
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:44:23PM -0600, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> wrote:
> > With my thinking, no, we shouldn't have. My point is that we should
> > be doing *something*, even if our current level of technology limits
> > us to near-useless actions. The point is to get into the mindset of
> > searching, and to make it "just a matter of course" when new
> > (potentially enabling) technologies are developed.
>
> Won't you be sorry when we finally do discover a signal and after
> analysing it, discover packets containing EBCDIC.
"Say, these packets are all less than the MTU, and they're all the
exact same size."
"Hey, wait a minute! Those look like numbers at the right end of
every packet!"
These aren't packets, they're CARDS!
--
Kevin P. Neal http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
Seen on bottom of IBM part number 1887724:
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