fortune extracts

Just got this as my fortune for the login session:


While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to hardware interrupts.]

And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine.
-- William Wordsworth, "She Was a Phantom of Delight"

[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to software interrupts.]