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--- BY ADEPT ---
Before IBM, the Head Programmer created the heavens (the area above
your computer) and the earth (the area below your computer). The earth
was a mass without order... sort of like a Pascal program.
Then, the Head Programmer (hereafter referred to as THP) said, 'Let
there be IBM.' And, IBM, as an infant company, appeared. And THP was
pleased with it, and gave IBM great powers. THP let IBM grow for a
time, and then other companies began to appear. Together, they created
the first computer market. All of these events happened in the first
decade.
And THP said, "Let IBM separate to form the mainframe division above
and the microcomputer division below." So THP made the mainframe divi-
sion, separating the company to form another division. These events
occurred in the second decade.
Then THP said, "Let the microcomputer division be infiltrated, so
that IBM cannot be accused of being a monopoly." And so, it happened.
Then THP called the IBM micro a PC, and called the others' micros
'compatibles'. And he said, "Let the earth burst forth with every
sort of microcomputer and 'compatible", and allow those computers to
be copied, so that the market is open". And so it was, and THP was
pleased. This all occurred in the third decade.
Then THP said, "Let there be operating systems with the computers
to give life to the computer and to identify the Mainframe division
and the Micro division. They will allow the users to use the computer,
and the version number shall mark the days and the years. And so it
was. For THP made two systems, the VM system, and DOS, to be used by
the divisions, the larger one, VM, to preside over the Mainframe divi-
sion, and the smaller one, the DOS, to preside over the Micro division.
And THP gave them to IBM, to provide life to the computer, and to pre-
side over the Mainframe and Micro divisions, and to divide the two
divisions. And THP was pleased. This all happened in the fourth
decade.
Then THP said, "Let the earth teem with applications programs, and
all other types of programs, of every kind." So THP created great
programming languages, and every sort of applications programs, and
every kind of game. And THP looked upon them with pleasure, and gave
each a copyright. "Multiply and stock the earth," he told them, and
to the games he said, "Let your types grow. Be known throughout the
the world!". That ended the fifth decade.
Then THP said, "Let the world bring forth every kind of peripheral,
monitors and disk drives, printers, and all types of add-ons.' And so
it was. THP made all sorts of printers and disk drives and mouses.
And THP was pleased with what he had done.
Then THP said, "Let us make a programmer - someone like ourselves,
to be the master of all computers upon the earth and in the skies and
in the seas."
So THP instructed a man to be a programmer.
Like THP did THP instruct the man.
Male and Female, did he instruct alike.
And THP graduated them and told them, "Multiply and produce code, and
subdue all computers; you are the masters of all the software and all
the peripherals. And see! I have given you the IBM computers through-
out the world, and all the compatibles." Then THP looked over all that
he had made, and it was superb in every aspect. This ended the sixth
decade.
Now at last, IBM was a thriving company, and with all the programs
and programmers it would need. S o in the seventh decade, THP halted
all work that he had been doing, and THP called this a system crash,
and decreed that all computers would experience this. Thus endeth
the seventh decade.
Later, man learned to hack, but that's another story...