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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 320k. We're
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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 drives."
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"Captain, yer overloadin' her as it is. The power supply just isn't built to
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take two hard drrrives."
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"Power, Scotty! I want more power! Chekov, install the disk cache. Spock, any
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word on the millions of instructions per second?"
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"Fascinating, Captain. It seems as if the turbo accelerator board is
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overrunning the hard drive, which, due to its poorer response time, is slowing
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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 with the 512k
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bit bus multiplexed down to one pin. The wee beastie has these teeny weeny
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little segments that can only handle so much. You'll have to install an
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extended memory board, do bank switching, and allocate a huge ram disk if you
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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 port, but
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because we're not multitasking, the data is just sitting 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 disk, we might
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have room for Unix and a couple of system utilities. Possibly an application.
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We'll need to increase the clock speed to 28 gigahertz. I think we can do it,
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but there are too many unknowns, too many bugs in the system! We'll have to do
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a proper shakedown."
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"Spock?"
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"Unix is a massive system, Captain, and the commands have to be decoded from
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hieroglyphics invented back in ancient times. It may be more than we can
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handle."
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"Sulu, put in the 60 meg hard drive, install Unix for mouse drive. Prepare to
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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 some word
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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.... Captain, I'm
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losing control at the helm. It looks like we've 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 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 device."
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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 and me math
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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 minutes."
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"Uhura, notify mainframe command."
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"Captain, either communications is breaking up, or you're dropping into
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Shakespearean stutter mode again."
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"Captain, she canna take much morrre.... Another fifteen seconds and me math
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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......Apparently, sir,
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they're going to time-warp previously forgotten modes of data handling, it
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looks like SQL syntax is forming in the language port now."
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"Scotty, quick, pop-up the menu shields. This could be a trick to get us back
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to card punching."
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"I'm sorry, Captain, but Dbase LCXIX doesn't have pop-ups that work 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 with Unix.
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It's like matter and antimatter, the system's too bogged down. Yer drainin me
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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 the screen
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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 the many."
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"Captain, she's not even runnin on reserve now. We'll have to do a cold boot
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for surrre."
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"Reboot scotty "
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"I can't captain..we have lost cmos"
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"Install floppy backup"
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"We can't captain..intense magnetic radiation from overloading thre power
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supply has wiped the backup floppies"
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"Doctor"?
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"it's dead jim"
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"Bones?"
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"It's dead, Jim."
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