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Stealth64 Drivers

    31-Oct-94 00:24:24
Sb: #132246-Stealth64 Drivers
Fm: James M. Murphy 71165,1321
Greg! >>> old UNIX joke – name a computer on the network Elvis, and "ping" it from another machine. If it is up and running, the answer that comes back is "Elvis is alive." :^) <<< Good One Greg!!! Actually the computer named Elvis was the RenderGarden we previewed at our Aug. 3D Artists Seminar and conference. I had to Drive from Green Bay to Milwaukee (102miles one way) in a rented van on a Saturday before the show to pick up the unit as Matt and Chris weren't flying in until after Fed-X closed up shop. The RenderGarden itself is about a 36x36x36 inch box when it's all packed in it's wooden crate and Fed-X loaded it in the back of the van with a fork truck. All the while we drove back from milwaukee I kept telling my Sue-Z How just the size of this particular wooden crate makes one very curious as to it's contents. Well when we got back to Green Bay and backed in the driveway to unload it as I lifted the box down to the ground I saw in about 1" Blue letters on the top corner of the box, "ELVIS" was written…<rofl>….I couldn't beleive it was hilarious!…. Later when I asked Matt about it he said that one of the programmers had dubbed the project involving this box and his special code was called the "Elvis" project. It's even more funny now that you've told me …"The Rest of the Story"…You see these guys are very good "Unix" Programmers too!<BG> Murph'