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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: stored matter transmitter images
Message-ID: <1761@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 00:20:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1761
Posted: Sat Oct  5 00:20:22 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 14:34:48 EDT
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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I have often wondered what I would do with a copy of myself---or
perhaps what a copy of myself would do with me.  For instance, when
I got up this afternoon I needed to do my laundry.  Suppose I
created an exact duplicate.  One of me could do the laundry while
the other read net.sf-lovers.

But if he were an exact duplicate, he (I?---we seem to need new
pronouns) would want to read net.sf-lovers and have me do the
laundry.  How could we come to an agreement?  (Perhaps I would
do the washing and he the drying... :-) )

Still I can imagine all sorts of interesting things we could
do.  But until someone invents a duplicator, we will have to
be contented with mere speculation.
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251)
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