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Article #625370Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:04
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:04
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On 2018-07-31, J Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:16:44 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc ><jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > >>On Monday, July 30, 2018 at 3:26:56 PM UTC-6, Peter Flass wrote: >>> Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote: >> >>> > Gibson in an interview I remember from the 80s said he misunderstood what the >>> > company was doing, and thought that the name would become a generic like >>> > "kleenex" or "xerox". >> >>> Or ex-lax. >> >>Come to think of it, that is actually an old joke... >> >>the computer in the Hepburn-Tracy movie "Desk Set" was called EMERAC... no, >>that's not quite what I was looking for... >> >>Ah, yes, I got it confused with the computer EPICAC from the works of Kurt >>Vonnegut. Ipecac being a natural laxative. > > Not quite. The word you are looking for is "emetic". It causes > forceful voiding of the digestive tract, but from the upper, not the > lower orifice. If someone has some substance in their stomach that it > is important not be in their stomach and a stomach pump is not readily > available, ipecac is the goto option. However one must be careful > with it--there are substances that do more damage on the way up than > they would if left in place for a while. ++ Charcoal seems to be indicated these times. -- Ma...@ireland.com Will Rant For Food
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