CPU Wars
/C-P-U worz/ 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 ADVENT and the immortal
line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM
stormtrooper). 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 (then, as now, 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 eat flaming death.
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