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You could do a version of that now, all you’d have to do is to raise the bar on what the voice recognition was supposed to be able to do. Say that it was an improved technology for national security or whatever.
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Ah. From 1990 (or earlier); no wonder the computer side of the prank seemed rather … lame. 25MHz 486 cpus were all the rage…
Comment by WestfW — August 8, 2010 @ 5:38 pm
The Cray was unavailable.
Comment by johngineer — August 8, 2010 @ 10:49 pm
You could do a version of that now, all you’d have to do is to raise the bar on what the voice recognition was supposed to be able to do. Say that it was an improved technology for national security or whatever.
Comment by Jeff — August 9, 2010 @ 1:04 pm
Dennis Kernighan listed as a gaffer in the credits.. nice!
Comment by Milo Bloom — August 9, 2010 @ 2:25 pm
*Brian* Kernighan, completing the K&R team.
Not to mention Ken Thompson on software. A fair number of other lesser yet still famous software lights in the credits too.
Comment by @MaggieL — August 9, 2010 @ 3:06 pm