> >What's the model gotta look like. As in, should she be blond, brunette or dark-haired? Will we settle for 5 feet 9 inches, or push for a 6 foot beauty? Can she weigh over 130 pounds? ;) > > > And how many bits do we reserve for the storage of her 'properties'? He browsed over to her casually, admiring the power of her twin 32 bit floating point processors and inquired "How are you Honey Well?". "Yes I am well", she responded, batting her optical fibres engagingly and smoothing her console over her curvilinear functions. He settled for a straight line approximation. "I'm stand-alone tonight", he said, "How about computing a vector to my base address?" "I will cut out a byte to eat, and maybe we could get an offset later on". She ran a priority process for 2.6 milliseconds then transmitted OK. "I've been dumped myself recently, and a new page is just what I need to refresh my disks. I'll park my machine cycle in your background and meet you inside. She walked off, leaving him admiring her solenoids and thinking, "Wow, what a global variable, I wonder if she'd like my firmware?". They sat down at the process table to a top of form feed of fiche and chips and a bucket of bawdots. She was in conversational mode and expanded on ambiguous arguments while he gave occasional acknowlegments, although, in reality, he was analyzing the shortest and least critical path to her entry point. He finally settled on the old "would you like to see my benchmark subroutine?" but she was again one step ahead. Suddenly she was up and stripping off her parity bits to reveal the full functionality of her operating software. "Let's get Basic, you RAM", she said. He was loaded by this stage, but his hardware polling module had a processor of it's own and was in danger of overflowing its output buffer (a hang-up that he had consulted his analyst about). "Core", was all he could say, as she prepared to log him off. She soon recovered, however, when he went down on the DEC and opened her device files to reveal her data set ready. He accessed his fully packed root device and was about to start pushing her CPU stack, when she attempted an escape sequence .... "No, No" she cried, "You are not shielded". "Reset, Baby", he replied, "I've been debugged". "But I haven't got my current loop enabled, and I can't support child processes", she protested