The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is doubtless reinforced by the movie title Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes[?] (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers[?]).
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