Re: Gisbon, cyberpunk responsible for hardware/software developments?

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From: Robert Billing
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00

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In article <6aiu6q$rki$1...@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>
           jo...@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu
           "Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,
" writes:

> I can't think of any Gibson-inspired inventions, but Brunner's "Shockwave
> Rider" was most definitely the source of network worm programs, both good

 Incidentally, I gave Brunner an oblique credit in a utility I wrote
years ago. The option /W (this was on DEC kit) meant "worm mode" or
detach from the terminal and run in background.

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