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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:30:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: God, this is scary...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909131229260.691-100000@smarter.than.nu>
In-Reply-To: <37DD4CD3.CD31F3FF@seattleu.edu>

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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Eric Hodel wrote:

> Nik Clayton wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 01:31:15PM +0000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > Although I think that the virus injected into the alien mothership in
> > > Independance Day by Jeff Goldblum was win2k, it could save our hides
> > > if packaged with enough M$ propoganda...
> > 
> >     <URL:http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/AlienDOS.html>;
> 
> Did they use a wintel machine in Independence Day?  I'll have to watch
> it again.

No, it was a Mac.  The joke of the day was that the Mac won't interface
with anything here on Earth, but amazingly works just fine when talking to
alien space ships. :)

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Brian Buchanan                                     brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
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