Some interesting novice questions from a novice guy

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au
Mon Oct 29 13:32:28 AEST 1990


In article <L15PR5w161w at phoenix.com>, stanley at phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes:
>    Computers are (relatively) simple machines.
> They do not respond to "Hey, you!".

I beg to differ.  The Burroughs machines have an instruction to
interrupt another processor in the same cluster, and the name
of that instruction is "HEYU".		[It's a _joke_!]

-- 
The problem about real life is that moving one's knight to QB3
may always be replied to with a lob across the net.  --Alasdair Macintyre.



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