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Article #389Re: Another secret message
From: and... Andrew Klossner
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 19:33
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 19:33
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When I worked at Heath in 1979 in their computer kit group (later spun
off as Zenith Data Systems), we used a PDP-11 RSTS system to develop
code for the H-11. A co-worker, a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses,
also used the RSTS windowed TECO to write religious tracts.
This version of RSTS did not clear out disk blocks between their
release from a (deleted) file and their allocation to a new one. And
the RSTS loader allocated room in executable files for uninitialized
data by simply seeking to the end of that data, so the disk blocks were
allocated but never written.
The result was that some H-11 executables went out with embedded
Jehovah's Witnesses literature. We found out when someone
inadvertantly "TYPE"d an executable.
-=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew%frip...@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca.wv.tek.com!frip!andrew From: and...@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Another secret message Message-ID: <5660@orca.wv.tek.com> Date: 15 Dec 89 19:33:05 GMT References: <15000@well.UUCP> <162@bucsb.UUCP> Sender: and...@orca.wv.tek.com Reply-To: and...@frip.wv.tek.com Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 17 Posted: Fri Dec 15 20:33:05 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit