IBM waznt around den...

Before IBM, The Head Programmer created the heavens (the area aboveyour computer) and the earth (the area below your computer). The earth wz a mass without order... sort Pascal program. Then, The Head Programmer (hereafter referred to as THP) said, 'Letthere be IBM.' And, IBM, as an infant company, appeared. And THP waz pleased wid it, and gab IBM great powers. THP let IBM grow for a tym, and then other companies began ta appear. Together, they created ze first computer market. All of these events happened in the first decade. N then THP said, 'Let IBM separate to form the mainframe division above n e microcomputer division below.' So THP made the mainframe divi-sion, separating the company to 4m another division. These events occurred in the second decade. Then THP said, 'Let the microcomputer division be infiltr8d, so dat IBM cannot be accused of bein a monopoly.' And so, it happened.Then THP called the IBM micro a PC, and called ze odez ' micros"compatibles". And he sed, 'Let ze earth burst forth with everysort of microcomputer and 'compatible', and allow doz computers 2b copied, so that the market is open'. And so it waz, n THP waz pleased. This all occurred in the third decade. Then THP said, 'Let der b oper8ing systems wid the computers ta gib lyf ta ze computer and to identify the Mainframe division n ze Micro division. De will allow ze users to use ze computer,and the version number shall mark the days and ze years. And so 'twaz. For THP made two systems, the VM system, and DOS, ta be used by ze divisions, the larger wun, VM, to preside over ze Mainframe divi-sion, and ze smaller wun, the DOS, to preside over ze Micro division.And THP gave them to IBM, to provide life to ze computer, and to pre-side over ze Mainframe and Micro divisions, and to divide ze two divisions. And THP waz pleased. This all happened in the fourth decade. Then THP said, 'Let the earth teem with applications programs, and ol oda types of programs, of every kind.' So THP created gr8 programming languages, and evry sort of applications programs, and every kind of game. And THP looked upon them with pleasure, and gab each a copyright. 'Multiply and stock ze earth,' he told 'em, and to ze games he said, 'Let your types grow. Be known throughout thethe world!' Dat ended ze fifth decade. Then THP said, 'Let the world bring forth every kind f peripheral,monitors and disk drives, printers, and ol types of add-ons.' And so it was. THP made all sorts f printers and disk drives and mouses.And THP was pleased with what he had done. Then THP sed, 'Let us make a programmer - someone like ourselves,to be the master of all computers upon ze earth and in the skies and in ze seas.' So THP instructed a man to be a programmer. Like THP did THP instruct the man. Male and Female, did he instruct alike.And THP graduated 'em and told 'em, 'Multiply and produce code, n subdue ol computers; u r ze masters of ol the software and ol ze peripherals. And see! I have given you the IBM computers through-out the world, and all the compatibles.' Then THP looked over all dat he had made, and it was superb in every aspect. This ended the sixth decade. Now at last, IBM was a thriving company, and with all the programs n programmers it would need. So in the seventh decade, THP halted ol work that he had been doing, and THP called this a system crash,and decreed dat ol computers would experience dis. Thus endeth the seventh decade. Later, man learned to hack, but that's another story....

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