Poem : PC-Wocky

PC-Wocky

With Apologies to Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass - Jabberwocky

By : Jim Pinto,
San Diego, CA.
USA

This poem was written at the time when the open-architecture of the IBM PC and MS-DOS had become the standards and the PC-clones were running amok! IBM was trying to wrest back control through introduction of their new MCA-bus and OS/2 software.

First published in Computer Systems News, June '89.

'Twas brillig and the slithy clones
Did grab and gobble market-share
All mimsy were the Microsofts
And the Apple Mac was there.
Beware the Gang-of-Nine my son
The installed base, the offshore loss
Beware the dreaded UNIX bird
And shun that single-tasking DOS
He took his MCA in hand
Long time the Gang-of-Nine he sought
So rested he by the big blue tree
And hatched his big blue plot
And as in uffish though he lay
The Gang-of-Nine with specs unfurled
Came whiffling through with EISA
And burbled to the world
With PS/2, OS/2 and through and through
His MCA went snicker snack
He left them dead and with their head
His market-share came back.
And hast thou slain the Gang-of-Nine !
Come to my Armonk my big blue boy
Oh frabjous day, Oh MCA
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig and the slithy clones
Did grab and gobble market-share
All mimsy were the Microsofts
And the Apple Mac was there.

You are old Father Big Blue Read Father Big Blue, the IBM-PC version of Old Father William.

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