KnowWare, Inc. announces the following word processing products:
PAIR-O-DOCS - A split-screen basic text editor.
LINE-O-TYPE - A complete WYSIWYGLY Desktop Publishing system.
XY-MORON - A scientific document system, extremely easy-to-use.
WORD WAR I - Specialized editor for defense contractors.
LEFT WRITE - A TSR utility that remaps the keyboard for left-handed typists.
MAC-ULET (University Level Editing Tool) - Oriented to thesis writing.
YAYA (Yet Another YACC Alternative) - A first text editor for grammar schools.
LET US 123 - A basic mathematics teaching package.
All products will be shipping shortly. (We thought of the names already; how long could it take to write them?).
Also announcing a product to be available in the next quarter (century):
LASER TURBO HYPETEX II-PLUS - An object-oriented AI-based 5th-generation vaporware prototyping environment, including proprietary and patented Integrated Buzzword Manufacturing (IBM).
B.T.W., MAC and YACC are S.E.T. (Somebody Else's Trademarks).
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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