Alice in UNIX-Land

Alice was reading the message on her monitor and beginning to suspect that everything was not as it should be. “Program too big to fit in memory,” it read.

“Curiouser and curiouser,” she said, “All I did was load fourteen TSRs before starting my word processor. With four megabytes, I wish I could use more than 640K.”

At that moment, a small white consultant (a very white consultant) ran across the room. “Oh my coat and necktie,” he said, “I’m going to be late for my appointment. And at one fifty an hour, too.” Before Alice could say anything, he leaped into her monitor and disappeared behind her operating system.

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Introduction

A very important Latin email dating from the year 2BC has been discovered hanging from a cold, dark, undiscovered strand of the world wide web. Archaeological experts at a prestigious London university have confirmed its authenticity. The world’s best Latin scholars have colloborated to provide the following translation, and have requested immediate world-wide distribution of this important document.

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