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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Nov 2002.
Re: alt.ascii-art ASCII-OS

Re: alt.ascii-art ASCII-OS

"Harry Mason" <spa...@no.spam> wrote in message
news:slr...@prodigy.ecs.soton.ac.uk...
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:10:47 -0000, Tom Bampton <mol...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Someone had an idea for AsciiOS a while back. Search Google Groups for
> "AsciiOS" for the thread.
>
> Someone should really get round to actually implementing this.

I pondered it, then I thought "unix, linux, dos ... all ascii on the most part"
so figured whats the point? :) I might be tempted to write an ascii OS simulator
or something.

> _________________              _______
> | AsciiOS Error |______________|- + x|
> |                                    |
> | Segmentation fault (core dumped)   |
> | Illegal Instruction at 0xdeadbeef  |
> |                                    |
> | .--------. .-------. .-----------. |
> | |[  OK  ]| | Debug | | Go Insane | |
> | '--------' '-------' `-----------' |
> | .--------. .-------. .-----------. |
> | | Cancel | | Swear | | Call Cops | |
> | '--------' '-------' `-----------' |
> |____________________________________|

Diddled :)

> No doubt this'll be useful...

Hah, yes :)

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