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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup..
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In article <199610202019.GAA17009@godzilla.zeta.org.au>,
Bruce Evans  <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
>Nah.  life(1) takes only a small amount of assembly language:

[deletia]

Now *that* is something worth sticking in the boot sequence. It's a
cool hack, and it can do one generation per probe, you can see if it
hangs, and it's *way* cooler than anything Microsoft does.