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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>CPU Wars</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="CP-M.html" title="CP/M"/><link rel="next" href="crack.html" title="crack"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">CPU Wars</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="CP-M.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="crack.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="CPU-Wars"/><dt xmlns="" id="CPU-Wars"><b>CPU Wars</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/C·P·U worz/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of
the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer
and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers).
This rather transparent allegory featured many references to
<a href="../A/ADVENT.html"><i class="glossterm">ADVENT</i></a> and the immortal line &#8220;<span class="quote">Eat flaming
death, minicomputer mongrels!</span>&#8221; (uttered, of course, by an IPM
stormtrooper). The whole shebang is now <a href="http://www.e-pix.com/CPUWARS/cpuwars.html" target="_top"> available on the
Web</a>.</p><p>It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of
appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas
J. Watson Research Laboratories (at that time one of the few islands of
true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM
logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See
<a href="../E/eat-flaming-death.html"><i class="glossterm">eat flaming death</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="CP-M.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="crack.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">CP/M </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> crack</td></tr></table></div></body></html>