Ob.Kinda.Folklore: Sure, the 8088 had a more powerful instruction set,
but as has already been mentioned, the 6502 generally got a lot more
per cycle done.

I never really thought about flippies being bad for the drives; in
fact I think the drives on my //e (vintage 1983: B revision ROMs),
which are the notoriously unreliable DuoDisks (half-height, but not
nearly as, er, robust as the Disk II's, on which I've used flippies for
eight years, are still working just fine.  Come to think of it, better
than 90% of the flippies are still working OK too.  Someday I'm going to
null-modem everything together and copy everything to a PC so if that
venerable machine ever bites the dust I can still play Choplifter and
Russki Duck on the Virtual Apple.

I'm frustrated because I'm too cheap to buy a decent OS for my 386 and GNU OS
isn't out yet and I have to run this silly little loader called MSDOS.  Either
that or work on the school's Macintoshes, which is not an optimal solution
either.

No, I still haven't hugged my wolf.

Adam

In order to formalise the levels of Usenet, I propose the following
Usenet Purity Test.

1) Have you ever posted to Usenet
2) had a posting in a moderated group accepted
3) Crossposted
4) posted a control message
5) Have you ever recieved an answer to a posting by mail
6) had someone reply with a posting
7) started a thread
8) had your signature start a thread
9) been flamed by mail for a posting
10) been flamed on Usenet
11) been flamed for your signature
12) started a flame war
13) started a flame war that moved to alt.flame
14) had someone announce in a posting that you were in their kill file
15) Have you ever posted a RFD for a new group
16) posted an RFD for a hierarchy
17) created a group due to a vote
18) created a hierarchy due to a vote
19) created a group without an RFD
20) created a hierarchy without an RFD
21) Have you ever forged a posting.
22) forged a reply to your own posting to start a thread
23) forged a flame of your own posting
24) posted anything deliberately to increase your score in
        the Usenet Purity test

In case anyone's wondering, my purity is 5, but I'm not saying which 5 ;-)
Feel free to extend the list... We'll reach a hundred yet...

Are you Kent Paul Dolan?

Nope, you scored only 5 and your lines are too long.

Dylan.
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From slxsys!ukc!mcsun!uunet!world!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!news Fri Mar 15 13:44:54 GMT 1991
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6500...@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Gabino Luis Alonso) writes:
|I am looking for a purity test that was posted some
|time ago.  If you have a copy, please mail one to:
|       6500...@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu

        No, I'm not going to mail it.  But here's a purity test.
        Hope this is the one you were looking for.  I wrote it
        just for you.

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I'll eat my hat if Carasso is more than 10% pure.

-- CJ's Net.Purity Test --

CREDITS:

C J Silverio (c...@modernlvr.wpd.sgi.com),
with suggestions from Bill Coderre (b...@apple.com)

INSTRUCTIONS:

Read the questions.  Answer yes or no.
If you're not sure how to answer, you lose.

SCORING:

Score one point for every "yes" answer.  Other scoring is
as noted in individual questions.  After you've answered
the questions, subtract your total from 100.  The resulting
number is your purity percentage.

Suggested Score Interpretations:

THE QUIZ:

Reading

1.  Have you ever regularly read a Usenet group?

2.  Lose one point if you've ever referred to newsgroups
    as "boards" or "bboards."

3.  Do you ever refer to newsgroups as 'froups?

4.  Do you now, or have you ever, read talk.bizarre?

5.  Have you ever regularly read an "alt" group?

6.  Score one point for every year you've been a regular reader.

7.  Subtract one point from your total for each "comp"
    group you read regularly.

8.  Subtract one point if you read alt.sex regularly.

9.  Subtract one point if you read soc.singles regularly.

10. Subtract five points if you read rec.humor.*.

11. Score one point for every item of clothing you own that's
    associated with a newsgroup.

12. Do you have a killfile?

13. Do you know about killfiles but refuse to use them on
    principle?

14. Are you in anyone else's killfile?

15. Have you read news.announce.newusers?

16. Have you been on the net so long that you've never bothered
    to read news.announce.newusers?

17. Does news.announce.newusers contain an article that you wrote?

18. Do you make "dot" jokes in your (non-net) conversation?

Posting

19. Have you ever posted to a Usenet group?

20. To the same group more than 10 times?

21. More times than you can count?

22. Has your name ever appeared on one of the uunet "Top 25" lists?

23. Were you #1?  If so, score 10 points.

24. Has your name ever been dropped in someone else's posting?

25. Is your dot-sig file less than 4 lines long?

26. More than 20 lines long?

27. Has your dot-sig ever been flamed?

28. Have you ever flamed someone else's dot-sig?

29. Have you stopped using dot-sig files?

30. Are you quoted in any one else's dot-sig file?

31. Lose five points if you've ever posted to rec.humor.misc.

32. Lose one point for each lightbulb joke you've posted.

33. Lose one point if you've ever posted a request for part x of
    any story in alt.sex.*.

34. Lose five points if you've ever posted a request for "Cindy's
    Torment."

35. Lose one point if you've ever posted your purity test scores
    to the net.

36. Score two points if you've posted them in rec.pets.

37. Lose one point for each pyramid scheme or chain letter you've
    forwarded to the net.

38. Lose one point if you've ever flamed anyone for posting a
    pyramid scheme or chain letter.

39. Lose one point if you've ever posted a request for the
    definition of "SO" or "MOTAS".

40. Have you ever crossposted?

41. Have you ever crossposted to soc.women?

42. Have you ever crossposted to more than five groups simultaneously?

43. Were those groups totally unrelated to each other and to the
    topic of your posting?

44. Subtract one point if you have ever accidentally crossposted or
    followed-up to misc.test.

45. Have you ever deliberately crossposted to rec.arts.startrek
    and talk.bizarre?

46. talk.bizarre and rec.pets?

47. Have you ever forged a posting?

48. Have you ever forged a newgroup?

49. Has anyone ever forged a cancellation of one of your postings?

50. Have you ever forged a cancellation of someone else's posting?

Newsgroups & Politics

51. Score one point for every news.* group you read.

52. Have you ever voted for or against a group?

53. Have you ever proposed a new newsgroup?

54. Was there a huge controversy & flame-fight during the
    discussion period/voting period for your group?

55. Did the vote for your group pass?

56. Did the backbone refuse to create your group?

57. Is there a cabal?

58. Is there a cabal of Daves?

59. Did you vote for comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac?

60. Have you ever created an alt group without bothering to ask
    permission?

61. A comp group?

Flaming

62.  Have you ever flamed?

63. Have you ever been flamed?

64. Have you ever been flamed for flaming?

65. Have you ever crossposted a flame to a group other than alt.flame?

66. Have you ever flamed in any news.* group?

67. Have you ever coaxed anybody into posting their SAT/GRE/etc. scores?

68. Lose five points if *you* have ever posted your SAT/GRE/etc. scores.

69. Lose one point if you've ever referred to alt.flame as a "sewer."

70. Have you ever set the "Followup-To:" to misc.test?

71. Did anyone fall for it?

72. Did the victim then post complaining about it?

73. Lose one point if you've ever told anyone to "take it to email."

74. Lose one point for every one of the following easy targets that
    you've flamed:
                Roger David "Noelle" Carasso
                Roger Rabbit
                Kent Paul Dolan
                Ted Kaldis
                David J. Rasmussen
                Kevin Darcy
                any PSU geek who crossposted a homophobic rant
                    to the entire net

75. Score one point for each of the above that has flamed you.

76. Have you ever written a stern note to someone else's system
    administrator?

77. Has anyone ever written a stern note about you to *your*
    system administrator?

78. Are you your own system administrator?

79. Have your posting privileges ever been yanked for something
    you posted?

80. Have you ever recommended that someone else's posting
    privileges be yanked?

81. Did your recommendation start a censorship flame war?

Periodicity

82. Have you ever taken part in the roving "censorship" flame war?

83. Have you ever taken part in the roving "homosexuality" flame war?

84. In news.admin?

85. Lose five points if you were on the same side as Ted Kaldis.

86. Lose another five if you're not sure what side Ted Kaldis was on.

87. Lose a point if you've ever posted about the little kid with
    cancer who wants to get enough postcards to get into the
    Guinness Book of World Records.

88. Can you name the kid?

89. The other kid?

90. Have you ever flamed someone for posting about that kid?

Personalities

91. Have you ever flamed Patricia O Tuama?

92. Have you ever been flamed by Patricia O Tuama?

93. Have you ever been complimented by Patricia O Tuama?

94. Have you ever flamed Gene Spafford?

95. Did he notice?

96. Have you ever flamed Chuq von Rospach?

97. Do you remember Weemba?

98. Have you ever been flamed by Weemba?

99. Were you ever mentioned in a Maroney Award?

100. Are you Rich Rosen?

 ODIT SZUA UPUC!

and hug your wolf.
--

] Well, if you consider Vaucluse "close"...