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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/11/08

    In reply to John Cleese Explains Why The Compaq II Is Better Than A Dead Fish
    With all our advances in fish technology, I expect we could find at least one fish these days that can run IBM software.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to John Cleese Explains Why The Compaq II Is Better Than A Dead Fish
    It probably can't even display a font from Crysis.
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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    11/10/08

    In reply to John Cleese Explains Why The Compaq II Is Better Than A Dead Fish
    :D brillent.


    Incidently, Clease is in a new gadget-show type program called "Batteries Not Included"

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    11/10/08

    @twDarkflame: does it have little self reproducing space aliens and Miss Daisy?
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    11/10/08

    In reply to John Cleese Explains Why The Compaq II Is Better Than A Dead Fish
    4.2 Megabytes is a fair amount of Megabytes, indeed.
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