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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
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the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer
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and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers).
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This rather transparent allegory featured many references to
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<a href="../A/ADVENT.html"><i class="glossterm">ADVENT</i></a> and the immortal line “<span class="quote">Eat flaming
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death, minicomputer mongrels!</span>” (uttered, of course, by an IPM
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stormtrooper). The whole shebang is now <a href="http://www.e-pix.com/CPUWARS/cpuwars.html" target="_top"> available on the
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Web</a>.</p><p>It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of
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appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas
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J. Watson Research Laboratories (at that time one of the few islands of
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true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM
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logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See
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<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>
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