[originally posted in comp.org.eff.talk by Eric Miller] If L. Ron Hubbard were alive today and he worked as a tech writer, his "holy scriptures" might go something like this ...
Operating System Version Three The head of the Silicon Valley (76 companies around larger cities visible from here) (founded 25 years ago, very soap opera) solved overemployment (2500 or so per company, 1780 on average) by mass upgrading. He caused people to be brought to Apple and put a virus in the principal server (Incident 95) and THEN the Pacific area ones were taken in backups to Redmond and the Atlantic area ones to MIT and then re-"programmed".
His name was BILL GATES.
He used renegades.
Various misleading data by means of bugs etc. was placed in the upgrades.
When through with his crime loyal executives (to the corporation) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Apple) has since been a desert.
The length and brutality of it all was such that Apple never recovered.
The upgrade is calculated to kill (by crashing etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my application development. One can freewheel through the upgrade and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc. and one dies.
So be careful to do only MacOS as given and not plough around and fail to complete one beta at a time. In December 1995 Steve Jobs knew someone had to take the plunge. Steve Jobs did and emerged very knocked out, but alive.
Probably the only one ever to do so in 15 years. Steve Jobs has ALL the data now, but only that given here is needful. One's software is a mass of individual betas stuck to oneself or to the software. One has to clean them off by running UNIX and MacOS. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good programming. You are running beings. They respond like any unformatted hard-drive. Some large, some small betas believed they were ONE. This is the primary error. Good luck.
For the purpose of clarity, by software beta is meant a beta which is stuck to another beta or software but is not in control. A beta is, of course, a Computer Science word using the Greek beta which was the Greek symbol for "let's put it on the market even if it's not done yet". An individual being such as a man is a beta, he is not a software and he does not think because he has a brain. A "release version" is a group of software betas crushed or held together by some mutual bad experience.
CHARACTER OF SOFTWARE BETAS Software betas are just betas. When you get rid of one he goes off and possibly squares around, picks up a bug or admires daisies. He is in fact a sort of erased Being. He cannot fail to eventually, if not at once, regain many abilities. Many have been asleep for the last 15 years. A software beta responds to any process any beta responds to. Some software betas are suppressive. A suppressive is out of valence in V5. He is in a valence in SunOS almost always. One can't run a computer on these two incidents since computers are composites and would not be able to run the lot. Aside from that, non-connects are way below awareness required to even find these incidents. Huge amounts of free space have already been removed from the case AND the software betas by formatting and Windows NT and SunOS to say nothing of networks and lower versions. Awareness is proportional to the free space removed from the case. Although a human is a composite being there is only one Bill Gates who runs things. Software betas just hold one back. You will continue to be you. You, inside, can of course separate out software betas and so solo programming is the answer.
How good do you have to be to run software betas off? Well, if you didn't skip your versions, formatting and Windows NT particularly, you should be able to command software betas easily.
Windows 95 is over 36 megabytes long. Capture on other companies was weeks or months before the upgrade. Those at Apple were just blown up except for Loyal Executives who were (shortly before the explosion at Apple) rounded up. Do not scan through the duration of 36 megabytes. The volcanic explosion at Apple to the points where "the finder" says he is mocking it up is only a few megabytes.
Sequence for betas on ANOTHER company - (1) Capture (being shot), (2) freezing, (3) transport to Microsoft (sometimes via TCP/IP), (4) being placed near a bulk eraser, (5) beginning upgrade up to "NT", (6) various picture sequences, (7) the 7s and C.C. and Windows NT materials, (8) 36 megabytes of picture upgrades which give a vast array of materials and three explanations for the bombing, (9) transport to Redmond or MIT for packaging up into shrink-wrap. The pictures contain God (Bill), the Devil, angels, space opera, theatres, a constant spinning, a spinning disk-drive, trains and various scenes very like modern Redmond. You name it, it's in this upgrade we call in its entirety "NT". If one was a Loyal Executive at Microsoft, the sequence was (1) capture (2) number 5 above on. If one was a worker at Microsoft there was only number 5 on.