Fun_People Archive
21 Nov
autoOS updates

Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 19:19:09 PST
To: Fun_People
Subject: autoOS updates

   Strangely enough, two people noticed (almost) the same lack in the original posting...


 From: Robert Morris <ram@claude.cs.umb.edu>

>> System 360: You drive to the store, where the doorkeeper requires you
   to fill out 300 pages of Store Control Language. You are admitted,
   fill three shopping carts and arrive at the checkout counter to be
   told that the last page of your SCL language has a syntax error. Your
   groceries are all returned to the shelves and you must go to the
   doorkeeper and start over.


 From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)

>> OS/370 - Instead of your car, you find the master plans to a rocket
   sled possibly written by L. Ron Hubbard during a vision of the future
   he had in 1959, a huge block of metal, a milling machine, and a large
   barrel full of crude.

© 1992 Peter Langston