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Article #296Re: My true cookie story
From: Ansel... Ed Anselmo
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 17:01
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 17:01
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In article <91...@asylum.SF.CA.US> sha...@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher) writes:
The other interesting story I heard about computing at RPI was
'wabbits.' As I recall, it involved running a program that generated
two copies of itself. Eventually, the load crashed the system.
At Michigan, on the MTS system, we'd submit these recursive batch jobs that just spawned
off copies of themselves. Submit the job, sit back and watch the job screen fill up.
This would go on until your account ran out of money. 'Twas always an entertaining way
to burn up the excess class account money at the end of the semester.
--
Ed Anselmo ansel...@cs.yale.edu {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-ed
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!think!mintaka!yale!cs.yale.edu!Anselmo-Ed From: Ansel...@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: My true cookie story Message-ID: <ANSELMO-ED.89Dec21120104@arizona.cs.yale.edu> Date: 21 Dec 89 17:01:03 GMT References: <89347.200350RLE100@PSUVM.BITNET> <9154@asylum.SF.CA.US> Sender: ne...@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 12 Posted: Thu Dec 21 18:01:03 1989 In-reply-to: sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US's message of 20 Dec 89 08:24:30 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit