02 03 08:50:28 IBM: when in doubt, write documentation 02 03 08:50:32 lolol 02 03 08:52:20 Intel: when in doubt, make up an acronym that doesn't mean a thing to anyone, and then sell it as the next big thing 02 03 08:52:24 I think this summarizes the state of IBM http://research.microsoft.com/~Gray/papers/MipEnvy.pdf (from about 25 years ago, it hasn't changed much) 02 03 08:52:27 LOL 02 03 08:52:56 Sun: Solution looking for a problem 02 03 08:53:08 SGI: Sure we can do that 02 03 08:53:11 hahaha 02 03 08:53:15 Cray: Your not worthy 02 03 08:53:20 nice one 02 03 08:53:34 HP/Compaq/DEC ? 02 03 08:53:40 HP: Because we can too 02 03 08:53:45 DEC: we -had- a better idea...but noone listened. 02 03 08:53:47 DEC: R.I.P 02 03 08:53:50 hahaha 02 03 08:53:59 Compaq: Fark us, we sold out 02 03 08:54:19 Dell: Will someone just buy us out already 02 03 08:54:26 omg lol 02 03 08:54:45 Gateway: Omg Dell just buy us please 02 03 08:54:48 ChinaInc: all your base belong to us. 02 03 08:55:05 ThermalTake: All your cooling belong to us 02 03 08:55:22 AMD ? 02 03 08:55:51 AMD: Sun shines on a dogs ass every once in a while 02 03 08:55:53 AMD: If Intel really fucks up again in 5 years, we'll have another chance to take over the universe. 02 03 08:56:23 i think mine sounds better 02 03 08:56:56 I've worked as a freelance consultant for BOTH amd and intel in the past. AMD were a bunch of cowboys, and Intel was a bunch of Sharks. I dunno which is worse. 02 03 08:57:00 Cisco: Were a bunch of asshats. You need us, but you don't know why, and we won't tell you. 02 03 08:57:10 I've worked for intel twice 02 03 08:57:18 they are a bunch of bloated asshats to me 02 03 08:58:09 Apple: I'm too sexy for a statement 02 03 08:58:27 #solaris: we're to cool for everything else 02 03 08:58:36 gawd damm right 02 03 08:58:39 were so cool 02 03 08:58:50 Intel wanted me to testify in a court case against AMD so they could weasel out from under a joint development agreement. Intel's part was hard to program, and generally worthless, AMD's graphics chip was a breeze to use, very cool. Intel's part was 20% faster at _ONE_ writing mode, AMD's part blew it away in every other mode. Intel wanted me to testify that one mode was better. 02 03 08:58:54 we don't even have to come here and were still cool 02 03 08:58:59 I told them to stick it where the sun don't shine. 02 03 08:59:24 good 02 03 08:59:31 fark them 02 03 08:59:36 I coulda made an easy $20K beiny an 'expert witness' but I dunno if I coulda slept. 02 03 08:59:46 i'm glad you did what you did 02 03 08:59:51 if you didn't believe it 02 03 08:59:53 then don't do it 02 03 09:00:00 yeah, I got them principle things. 02 03 09:00:02 20k really isn't shit if you think about it 02 03 09:00:03 haha 02 03 09:00:05 had them for too fucking long. 02 03 09:00:24 FuzzyB; no, its not. back then (this was mid/late 80s), that was 4 weeks consulting work 02 03 09:00:32 peerce: 20k is a pretty sweet all road :) 02 03 09:00:34 so 60k 02 03 09:00:47 just to be nice 02 03 09:01:07 I was typically billing my clients $5K/week for SW development projects and such. 02 03 09:01:18 platform? 02 03 09:01:53 any. ranged from embedded microcode to graphics drivers for windows 2.x/3.x and even DRI GEM :-O (like I said, it was the 80s) 02 03 09:01:54 Ratrophy: should i call these people or ebay msg them about what im looking for 02 03 09:02:14 fun times 02 03 09:02:30 lots of firmware and assembler. i was good at that shit until I burned out :D 02 03 09:02:37 heh 02 03 09:02:39 me too 02 03 09:02:49 i actually was proficent in assembley at one time in my life 02 03 09:02:57 that i wrote a whole graphics library 02 03 09:03:05 for a compter programming class 02 03 09:03:13 in assembley 02 03 09:03:20 so the kids learning pascal 02 03 09:03:22 I did assembler for nearly 20 years. yeah, we did a whole 3D rendering system in 386/486 assembler, highly optimized 02 03 09:03:27 could have a decent graphics library to work with 02 03 09:03:35 using fixed point multiplies for the transformations etc 02 03 09:03:49 fun times 02 03 09:03:56 i miss 16bit real mode 02 03 09:04:01 gauraud and phong shading, antialiasing, etc. 02 03 09:04:08 realmode blew chunks :D 02 03 09:04:13 i know 02 03 09:04:17 but i still loved it 02 03 09:04:20 Sintax, ask them about an item that you might be interest in in their auctions, the continue on with whatever the hell you want 02 03 09:04:25 EMS, XMS, etc etc, B A R F 02 03 09:04:31 heh 02 03 09:04:32 yea 02 03 09:04:38 A000:0000 02 03 09:04:44 FFF0:0000 02 03 09:04:49 FFF0:FFFF