From alt.folklore.computers Wed May 26 17:11:15 1993 Path: daimi!uts!sunic!mcsun!uknet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!bnrgate!nott!torn!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!west.West.Sun.COM!male.EBay.Sun.COM!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!seven-up.East.Sun.COM!dr-pepper.East.Sun.COM!nemesis!hoppie From: hoppie@nemesis.East.Sun.COM (Tom Hopkins) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Computer version of poem Date: 14 May 1993 19:37:29 GMT Organization: . Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1t0sdp$5vg@dr-pepper.East.Sun.COM> References: <1sv9dt$78h@manuel.anu.edu.au> Reply-To: hoppie@nemesis.East.Sun.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: nemesis.east.sun.com In article 78h@manuel.anu.edu.au, jcm@octavia (James McPherson) writes: >In article <1993May14.044055.6018@trl.oz.au> soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung) wrote: >>I'm looking for the computer version of the poem at the start of >>the Lord of the Rings. It goes like this, ``One ring to ... and in >>the darkness, bind them''. The computer version refers to hard disks >>or some piece of hardware. Can someone email or post that poem? > >Well, the version from /usr/games/fortune goes like this: [his version deleted] This is another version that I've seen: Nine megs for the secretaries fair, Seven megs for the hackers scarce, Five megs for the grads in smoky lairs, Three megs for system source; One disk to rule them all, One disk to bind them, One disk to hold the files And in the darkness grind 'em. -Tom Hopkins