Lack of 8-bit threads (was Re: Linux question)

[Fred Cisin]

> (When they start packaging food in those blankin' soddin' vinyl packages, I
> expect to start hearing of people starving to death for being unable to open them.)

~25 years ago, a student in the lab managed to get the mylar out of it's
jacket of a 5.25" diskette.  Somebody asked her, "how come you didn't
realize that something was wrong when it was so hard to take apart?"
She replied, "it's just about as hard to open a bag of potato chips"