2024-11-24

[EN] Physical ≠ Virtual

hardware, noun, uncountable
That part of a computer system which can be kicked.

Or dealt with even more decisively:

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And plunged it deep into the VAX.
Don't you envy people who
Do the things you want to do!
(Traditional)
_________
As they used to say:
Nothing sucks like a VAX.
This has two meanings, since a vacuum cleaner was once advertised with it (the latter as a variation of an old Electrolux slogan, where the Swedes were apparently well aware of the meanings of the verb).

The Book of Knowledge about the DEC VAX:
and about the vacuum cleaner and the slogan:

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[EN] A Curio about the Digits of Pi

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