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STAR TREK: IN SEARCH OF POWER
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"Sulu, set path to the root directory and install the ram disk for
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320k. We're taking her out."
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"Aye, sir."
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"Scotty, I want full power to the megabit ram chips and to the hard
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drives."
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"Captain, yer overloadin' her as it is. The power supply just isn't
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built to take two hard drrrives."
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"Power, Scotty! I want more power! Chekov, install the disk cache.
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Spock, any word on the millions of instructions per second?"
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"Fascinating, Captain. It seems as if the turbo accelerator board
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is overrunning the hard drive, which, due to its poorer response time,
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is slowing down the system performance."
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"Scotty, where is that power!?"
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"Captain, I'm givin ye all she's got. It's that miserable 80986
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with the 512k bit bus multiplexed down to one pin. The wee beastie has
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these teeny weeny little segments that can only handle so much. You'll
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have to install an extended memory board, do bank switching, and
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allocate a huge ram disk if you want to go any faster."
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"Chekov, install the EMS board."
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"Yes, sir."
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"Uhura, any word from mainframe command?"
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"Well, Captain, we're received several interrupts from the serial
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port, but because we're not multitasking, the data is just sitting
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there."
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"Scotty, how much longer until we can shift into Unix?"
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"Captain, if ye can squeeze another 60 megabytes onto that hard
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disk, we might have room for Unix and a couple of system utilities.
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Possibly an application. We'll need to increase the clock speed to 28
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gigahertz. I think we can do it, but there are too many unknowns, too
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many bugs in the system! We'll have to do a proper shakedown."
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"Spock?"
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"Unix is a massive system, Captain, and the commands have to be
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decoded from hieroglyphics invented back in ancient times. It may be
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more than we can handle."
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"Sulu, put in the 60 meg hard drive, install Unix for mouse drive.
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Prepare to go to Task speed on my signal."
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"Mouse drive? ......Aye, Captain."
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"Now! Yes, Bones? What do you want?"
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"Jim, you just have a little spreadsheet work, mailing labels, and
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some word processing. Don't you think you're overdoing it a bit?"
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"Sulu?"
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"Captain, she's shifting into multitasking. Task one. Task two....
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Captain, I'm losing control at the helm. It looks like we've
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encountered a bad sector."
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"Put it on visual, Sulu."
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"Captain, the VGA is not responding, sir. Shifting resolution into
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EGA mode."
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"Spock? What's the problem?"
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"Unknown, Captain. Unix seems to be rerouting all input to a null
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device." Trying 'grep'", now muttering, "whatever that is."
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"Scotty, what's happening with those '/dev' subdirectories?"
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"Captain, she canna take much morrre.... Another fifteen seconds
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and me math chips'll burrrn up for surrre...."
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"Scotty, we're not using the math chip."
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"Sorry, Captain, but I haven't been able to say that for twenty
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minutes."
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"Uhura, notify mainframe command."
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"Captain, either communications is breaking up, or you're dropping
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into Shakespearean stutter mode again."
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"Captain, she canna take much morrre.... Another fifteen seconds
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and me math chips'll burrrn up for surrre...."
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"Enough Scotty!"
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"Captain! I'm getting a message from mainframe command......
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Apparently, sir, they're going to time-warp previously forgotten modes
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of data handling, it looks like SQL syntax is forming in the language
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port now."
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"Scotty, quick, pop-up the menu shields. This could be a trick to
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get us back to card punching."
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"I'm sorry, Captain, but Dbase LCXIX doesn't have pop-ups that work
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yet."
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"Chekov, we need hardcopy! Fire HP LaserJet!"
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"Aye, sir."
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"Bones, how do I see which tasks are active?"
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"I'm a doctor, Jim, not a command shell!"
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"Scotty! Why can't I get a directory on this thing!!?"
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"Captain, ye just canna have a mouse driven pull down menu system
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with Unix. It's like matter and antimatter, the system's too bogged
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down. Yer drainin me quartz crystals."
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"Chekov, report."
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"Captain, the little arrow is responding, but it gets to the side of
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the screen before the windows have a chance to move..."
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"Spock? What's happening to our multitasking?"
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"It appears as if the needs of the one are outweighing the needs of
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the many."
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"Captain, she's not even runnin on reserve now. We'll have to do a
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cold boot for surrre."
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"Bones?"
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"It's dead, Jim."
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