Subject: RDs for Nothing
To: <>
From: None <Jay_Maynard@crow.bmc.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/09/1998 14:00:38
The message last night on a NetBSD mailing list about a VAX for free
got the wheels turning...I came up with most of this on the drive to
the office. Enjoy.
RDs for Nothing (to the tune of Money for Nothing)
Jay Maynard, with apologies to Dire Straits
I want my...I want my...I want my BSD...
Now look at that hacker, that's the way you do it
You get your Micro running BSD
No, that ain't Windows, that's the way you do it
Get your RDs for nothing, and your VAX for free
No, that ain't Windows, that's the way you do it
Lemme tell you, them guys ain't dumb
Don't give no money to that old Bill Gates now
Don't let him get you under his thumb
We got to install NT servers
PC networks are so much fun
We got to install '95 clients
Try to get those beasts to run
See that 780 in the cabinet with the 9-track
Yeah buddy, that's it over there
That 780's got five gigs of disk space
That 780 needs conditioned air
We got to install NT servers
PC networks are so much fun
We got to install '95 clients
Try to get those beasts to run
I shoulda learned to use the C shell
I shoulda learned to use vi
Look at that monitor, it's running seven different programs
Man, just watch the Web fly
And over there, what's that? Big C compiler?
Bangin' on the swap drive like a chimpanzee
That ain't Windows, that's the way you do it
Get your RDs for nothing, get your VAX for free
We got to install NT servers
PC networks are so much fun
We got to install '95 clients
Try to get those beasts to run
Now that ain't Windows, that's the way you do it
You get your Micro running BSD
That ain't Windows, that's the way you do it
RDs for nothing, and your VAX for free
RDs for nothing, and VAX for free
(I want my...I want my...I want my BSD...)
RDs for nothing, and VAX for free
(I want my...I want my...I want my BSD...)
(fade out)
(For non-VAX aficionados, older MicroVAX systems used MFM hard drives
that DEC bought from several manufacturers; DEC gave them RDxx type
numbers.)
(...and "hacker" is used in the proper manner, referring to someone
who plays with computers because he likes to, not the press-corrupted
version of "computer criminal".)