From: ascott@pacifier.com (Alan Scott) Subject: Re: Mao's Private Chat Room, "Talk Bizarre" Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Summary: One slightly less than knee-jerk followup, comin' up. Keywords: iterative hardware debugging References: <609h91$r9m$1@new-news.cc.brandeis.edu> Distribution: world Organization: the Wall of Plato's Cave Lines: 34 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] NNTP-Posting-Host: pacifier.com Message-ID: <342aba36.0@news.pacifier.com> Date: 25 Sep 97 19:23:34 GMT Path: jfwhome!news.ultranet.com!news-pen-4.sprintlink.net!206.229.87.26!news-east.sprintlink.net!news-dc-26.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.206.0.71!iagnet.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.he.net!pacifier!news.pacifier.com!not-for-mail Scott Dorsey (kludge@netcom.com) wrote: : You're not supposed to NEED a scope for these things! That's what the : protocol analyzer is for. The scope is what cavemen used to debug fire. IHNJH, IJLS "The scope is what cavemen used to debug fire." Thanks, Scott, for the impetus: QUEST FOR DEBUGGING FIRE [Three cavemen (well, two cavemen and one cave woman) huddled around a fire. The rest of the set is almost bare, save for a portable oscilloscope and a pile of mastodon parts...] Og: "Pass me that oscilloscope, Ug." Ug: "Fire got another glitch in it?" Og: "Uh-huh. Flame's too hot. I tried to make a backup copy with this stick and burned my hand." Oogla: "Hey! I stuck this mastodon leg into your flame and it came out black! When's version 2.0 coming out?" Og: (snuffles) "Hmm... mastodon smells GOOD." Ug: "Scheduled release date is still 2,000,098 B.C.... hey, Og, you're right!" (Ug grabs mastodon part from Oogla and takes a big bite. Og follows suit.) Og: (through mouthful of mastodon) "Oogla, I think we've got something here..." CHORUS: "It's a feature, not a bug!" CURTAIN -- Alan P. Scott..................http://www.pacifier.com/~ascott/apshome.htm "Ambiguity... the devil's volleyball." --Emo Philips