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by A_Username » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:20 pm
I was going through some old messages I had saved off newsgroups a while back, and when I read a few of them again, I found this joke.
Windows 95: 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
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by Kurt_ » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:31 pm
I see this being locked very shortly.
But still, that's rather funny.
Unfortunately, this can't be discussed much further than that.
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by gamer2 » Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:34 pm
Ya, this thread is destined to get the lock treatment. But that joke is great.
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by Felino » Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:46 pm
My sig one is better though I think.
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by Retromaster » Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:47 pm
don't really get it, but this is DESTINED to get locked.
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by daguuy » Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:49 pm
I don't see why this would get locked, jokes own!
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by atari2600a » Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:34 pm
Wait, since when was the 8088 a 4-bit processor? MS-DOS was written for the 8088, which was a 16-bit processor w/ an 8-bit bus! Heck, the only reason the IBM PC used the 8088 instead of the 8086 was so it'd be easier to interface with off-the-shelf hardware
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by Indigno » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:16 pm
So now we have to update it to have the new 64 bit PC's ^_^
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by A_Username » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:23 pm
Retromaster wrote: don't really get it, but this is DESTINED to get locked.
Unless you're a computer person, you wouldn't really get it.
-Derek
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by A_Username » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:26 pm
Indigno wrote: So now we have to update it to have the new 64 bit PC's ^_^
Win95 64bit: It's like eating bad tacos, fast AND crappy.
-Derek
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by A_Username » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:27 pm
Felino wrote: My sig one is better though I think.
Whoever has the fake ad of that in their sig should reply here, I keep trying to find it, but never can.
-Derek
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by Retromaster » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:29 pm
A_Username wrote: Retromaster wrote: don't really get it, but this is DESTINED to get locked.
Unless you're a computer person, you wouldn't really get it.
-Derek
Not really into computers, just building and fixing them
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by atari2600a » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:14 pm
I like the 127.0.0.1 joke on Kurt's sig.
Oh, BTW, 64-bit builds of Windows (whether XP or Vista) are NT based, which started on 32-bit processors.
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by SpongeBuell » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:19 pm
How about this?
Windows Vista: a 64-bit operating system that is based on the interface of an operating system made up of 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
best I could think of... I suppose it makes things a bit confusing, but that may actually be a good thing
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