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The 1991 "X-Box"
Jim Hall writes "Back in college (1991), I wondered why no one had bothered to make a DOS-based game console.
One day, in the back of a notebook, I made some notes about how you might go about creating a DOS-based game console. (I even called it an "X-Box", but really the "X" was there because I didn't know what else to call it. Microsoft's current "XBox" console is completely different, and I don't claim any rights to the "X-Box" name.)
I've posted some scans of my notes, and a discussion about how you would create a DOS-based game console."
Actually, in this case it's more like: In Soviet Russia, your idea copies Microsoft!
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
"Slashdot Reaches A New Low"
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Okay, for the past few months, I've seen this posted many times over, possibly by the same people, and it got me wondering
theoretically, if we can keep lowering the bar, we'll eventually have discovered an area of human interaction that was previously unknown and unexplored, a sort of cess pool of geek afterthought. and isn't that a scientific and worthy cause in and of itself?
perhaps slashdot could keep a running counter on the front page, letting all the users know exactly how low things have gotten, with exhuberant cheers as we plummet below the levels of the Republican Party, past the sewers of the American Christian Right Taliban, through the sludge and detritus of slashdot
if my calculations are correct, we have achieved absolute zero, people. SLASHDOT CANNOT OFFICIALLY GO ANY LOWER!!!!
so can we PLEASE stop seeing
"Slashdot Reaches A New Low"
every goddamn day? if you don't like a discussion, shut the hell up. nobody forced you read about some lame idea for a shitty game system running on an outdated OS that some dude jotted down on a napkin at the bar after a girl turned him down.
Cheers!
If you have nothing of value to contribute, then shut the hell up, anon coward