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From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Positrons (was Re: [9fans] g++)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:20:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030915172048.C25502@edinburgh.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030915145443.GA8164@sigint.cs.purdue.edu>; from splite@purdue.edu on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:54:43AM -0500

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:54:43AM -0500, splite@purdue.edu wrote:
> You'd still need to slap it with a phased verteron pulse, which would
> depolarize the resonance frequency generators and generate a subspace
> field implosion, inducing a reload of the positronic subprocessors from
> the protected memory archive.  Duh.

One thing I always found amusing about the use of 'positronics' vs electronics
in SF was what heppens if the back up battery is turned off?

*poof* Daneel's head vanished in a flash of blinding light and gamma rays.

DF


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-15 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-14 22:13 [9fans] g++ Andrew Simmons
2003-09-15 14:54 ` splite
2003-09-15 16:20   ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
2003-09-15 22:33   ` Charles Forsyth
2003-09-15 23:14     ` boyd, rounin
     [not found] <6A0A0B7110C3894CB8D5CF8FA591C09A01F0424D@nycoms01.hq.bn-corp.com>
2003-09-15 18:05 ` Positrons (was Re: [9fans] g++) Joel Salomon

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