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- From: tommy.usher@the-matrix.com (Tommy Usher)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: RUNAWAY (etc.)
- Message-ID: <5042.403.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:37:00 GMT
- Reply-To: tommy.usher@the-matrix.com (Tommy Usher)
- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
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- BM>And what, pray tell, was *so terribly bad* about "Runaway"? Only thing I
- BM>wasn't too keen on was the bit about a ROM chip whose instructions were good
- BM>on different processors (down to 8088 mode 8-{)} ) up to whatever they were
- BM>ng
- BM>in the timeframe mentioned...
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- Personally, I thought it was a reasonably realistic look at a possible
- future. There were a few lapses like the one mentioned, but at the time
- it was made, we were being told that home robots would be along real
- soon. Of course, the home robot industry seems to have stalled, but who
- knows. I mean, being a cop on the Runaway Squad wouldn't be a bad job.
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