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A Grandchild's Guide to using Grandpa's computer
(Ode to Dr. Seuss)
Written by Gene Ziegler (1995) -- Gene_Ziegler@Cornell.edu


    Ce bon docteur (en littérature) Theodor Seuss Geisel est né le 2 mars 1904 et s'est éteint le 24 septembre 1991. Mais entre temps, il s'est illustré par des dessins politiques, des oeuvres poétiques et surtout des contes pour enfants.
    L'illettrisme des enfants scolarisés avait été souligné par Life en Mai 1954.
9 mois plus tard, Geisel publiait "The Cat in the Hat", un livre écrit en utilisant uniquement 220 mots. En 1960, il sortit  "Gree Eggs and Ham", .... avec 50 mots !
    Depuis, son style a été de nombreuses fois parodié, comme en témoigne ce poème vu sur oceanwave (et aussi sur 50 autres sites !)
    Pour info, un byte n'est pas toujours égal à 8 bits. Il désigne un "stream" (séquence continue) de bit (7 bit byte, 9 bit byte, etc...) et représente la plus petite unité de mémoire adressable. Un octet est donc un "8 bits byte" (un byte de 8 bits).
Cf.
Questionnaire Langage : Unités.
    Le terme a été introduit par Werner BUCHHOLZ en 1956, suite aux premières phases de conception de l'ordinateur IBM Strech (qui, au début, ne comptait que des *6* bit byte, d'ailleurs!).
    La notion intervient dans le
binding ou encore les types.

 


Bits. Bytes. Chips. Clocks.
Bits in bytes on chips in box.
Bytes with bits and chips with clocks.
Chips in box on ether-docks.


Chips with bits come. Chips with bytes come.
Chips with bits and bytes and clocks come.


Look, sir. Look, sir. Read the book, sir.
Let's do tricks with bits and bytes, sir.
Let's do tricks with chips and clocks, sir.


First, I'll make a quick trick bit stack.
Then I'll make a quick trick byte stack.
You can make a quick trick chip stack.
You can make a quick trick clock stack.


And here's a new trick on the scene.
Bits in bytes for your machine.
Bytes in words to fill your screen.


Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir.
Try to say this by the clock, sir.


Clocks on chips tick.
Clocks on chips tock.
Eight byte bits tick.
Eight bit bytes tock.
Clocks on chips with eight bit bytes tick
Chips with clocks and eight byte bits tock.


Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say.


If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!


If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash.


You can't say this? What a shame, sir!
We'll find you another game, sir.


If the label on the cable on the table at your house
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!


When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to ram your ROM.
Quickly turn off your computer and be sure to tell your mom!

 


               
 
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