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10 Aug 2024 09:19:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Joke (actually a true story)  
From: Steve Martin
Date: 10 Jan 2000 21:32:18
Message: <387A9611.F0630122@usit.net>
"mr.art" wrote:
> 
> P1 was never designed to gain control of banking computers,
> it just could. P1 stands for "Priority 1". P1 could
> de-compile, analyze, and re-compile for efficiency, the
> programs that were running on the system. P1 rewrote itself.
> And the story goes on from there.

Okay, I guess I'll give you that one. I remembered that Gregory
turned his project loose in a series of banking computers in
Chicago, I guess I short-circuited from there to the idea that
he wrote it to take over those computers specifically.


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