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A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server

112 points · 46 comments · paimapi

b800h · 1789628496 · focus · HN ↗
> "1994" > "RISC was a distant dream"
Ahem
1. dspillett · 1789630140 · focus · HN ↗
  Maybe I'm in a generous mood, but I would credit the writer with making a joke about the content of the film they had just mentioned and subsequently show a screen cap of work the subtitles for a line about RISC being a significant future technology, rather than being that historically inaccurate in their own tech memory.
  1. b800h · 1789639037 · focus · HN ↗
    Oh yes, "RISC is going to change everything". I remember that line.
    Clunky from the author, I think.
2. richrichardsson · 1789646961 · focus · HN ↗
  Was just coming to comment on that too.
  "Tell that to the ARM based Acorn Archimedes I was using at 6th Form College in 1991."
  1. icedchai · 1789651716 · focus · HN ↗
    Or all the Sun Sparc servers that were incredibly common at that time. Coincidentally, they almost all ran telnet!

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